Definitions for disperse

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disperse dis·perse

Spelling: [dih-spurs]

IPA: /dɪˈspɜrs/

Disperse is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 257 anagrams from letters in disperse (deeiprss).

Definitions for disperse

adjective

1. Physical Chemistry. noting the dispersed particles in a dispersion.

verb (used with object)

1. to drive or send off in various directions; scatter:
2. to spread widely; disseminate:
3. to dispel; cause to vanish:
4. Physical Chemistry. to cause (particles) to separate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid, or gas.
5. Optics. to subject (light) to dispersion.

verb (used without object)

1. to separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered:
2. to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish:

Origin of disperse

1350-1400; Middle English dispersen, disparsen (Middle French disperser) Latin dispersus (past participle of dispergere), equivalent to di- di-² + -sper(g)-

Examples for disperse

This is a problem, since no traffic police can identify any of the trucks if they start to disperse once they enter Ukraine.

At about 11 p.m. State Police started flying a helicopter over the scene, ordering the crowds to disperse.

Once afoot, it was not long before the company began to disperse.

The crowd bawls its approval, but begins to disperse after one encore.

“Instead of car tires, concrete blocks are placed there now, and nobody intends to disperse,” the minister said.

They lift up their hands to disperse the grains of the sand-storm.

"There's one point we almost overlooked," said Frank, just as the chums were about to disperse.

They say to hit the waterspout in the centre where it joins the other from below will disperse it.

When a big cache of weapons is inbound, rival outfits often gang together to disperse the load among their safe houses.

A little later the crowd at the swimming place began to disperse.