Disperse: alternatives and connections

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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of Spread

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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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of Split

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To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To loose the bands of; to set free; to disunite; to scatter; to disperse; to break up the organization of; especially, to dismiss from military servi…

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To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

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To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.

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of Run

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To sew. See Sew.

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To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat;…

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To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

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To spatter; to splash.

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A small shoot or branch; a twig.

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To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

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An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.

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To make vulgar, or common.

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The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites a…

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The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites a…

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One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

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One who, or that which, disseminates, spreads, or propagates; as, disseminators of disease.

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The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expa…

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of Sprinkle

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of Sprinkle

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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of Spread

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A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusion…

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To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

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To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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A marriage portion; dowry.

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Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portion…

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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of Spread

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To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

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