disperse
/dɪˈspɝs/ verb C2- To scatter in different directions. · The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
- To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- To disseminate.
- To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- To distribute throughout.
He/she/it disperses · Past dispersed · Past participle dispersed · -ing form dispersing
Verb forms
- Base form
- disperse
- He/she/it
- disperses
- Past
- dispersed
- Past participle
- dispersed
- -ing form
- dispersing
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But however the mind of the young man might be absorbed in these reflections, they were at once dispersed at the sight of the dark frowning ruins of the stupendous Colosseum, through the various openings of which the pale moonlight played and flickered like the unearthly gleam from the eyes of the wandering dead.
The other members silently dispersed.
Morcerf paused at these words, quietly waiting till the cloud should have dispersed which had gathered on the brow of Danglars, and which he attributed to his silence; but, on the contrary, to his great surprise, it grew darker and darker.
The whole journey was performed with equal rapidity; the thirty-two horses, dispersed over seven stages, brought them to their destination in eight hours.
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