scatter
/ˈskætɚ/ verb B1- To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse. · The crowd scattered in terror.
- To distribute loosely as by sprinkling. · Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
- To deflect (radiation or particles).
- To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
- To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow. · to scatter hopes or plans
- To be dispersed upon. · Desiccated stalks scattered the fields.
- Of a pitcher: to spread out a high number of hits or walks between innings so as not to give up a high number of runs
- To leave. · When the police showed up, I scattered.
He/she/it scatters · Past scattered · Past participle scattered · -ing form scattering
Verb forms
- Base form
- scatter
- He/she/it
- scatters
- Past
- scattered
- Past participle
- scattered
- -ing form
- scattering
From the library
All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpeted, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their comrades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round.
The monkeys scattered with cries of--“Kaa!
Studies palled just a wee bit then; the Queen’s class, left behind in school while the others scattered to green lanes and leafy wood cuts and meadow byways, looked wistfully out of the windows and discovered that Latin verbs and French exercises had somehow lost the tang and zest they had possessed in the crisp winter months.
“Take out my straw and scatter it over the little girl and the dog and the Lion,” he said to the Woodman, “and the bees cannot sting them.” This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside the Lion and held Toto in her arms, the straw covered them entirely.
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