Meaning

1 senses

  1. Scattered or spread out.

Examples

29 sentences

  1. Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

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  2. The police used tear gas to disperse the protesters.

    deDie Polizei hat die Demonstranten mit Tränengas auseinandergetrieben. — Waldelfe

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  3. The police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

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  4. The police dispersed the crowd by firing tear gas.

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  5. The police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the protesters.

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Origin

From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatt

From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.

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Forms

more disperse, most disperse
Comparativemore disperse Lesson
Superlativemost disperse Lesson

regular

Word family

9 related words
Derivedbidispersedispersenessdisperse phaseheterodisperseisodispersemonodispersenanodispersepaucidispersepolydisperse

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
dispensationdispenseC1dispenserdisplaceB2displacementdisplayA2
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