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Scatter

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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Manner of action 17

Bespangle 76% connected

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

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Birdlime 76% connected

An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it. When a twig is smeare…

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Break 76% connected

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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Circumfuse 76% connected

To pour round; to spread round.

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Disband 76% connected

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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Distribute 76% connected

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

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Lime 76% connected

A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

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Manure 76% connected

To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

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Muck 76% connected

abbreviation of Amuck.

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Plash 76% connected

A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

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Spatter 76% connected

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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Splash 76% connected

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

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Splatter 76% connected

To spatter; to splash.

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Spray 76% connected

A small shoot or branch; a twig.

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Sprinkle 76% connected

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

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Swash 76% connected

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

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Volley 76% connected

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

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Broader term 13

Circulate 76% connected

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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Discharge 76% connected

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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Dispersion 76% connected

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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Distribute 76% connected

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

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Distribution 76% connected

The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…

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Divide 76% connected

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

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Part 76% connected

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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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Separate 76% connected

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

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Sow 76% connected

To sew. See Sew.

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Split 76% connected

of Split

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Spread 76% connected

of Spread

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Spreading 76% connected

of Spread

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Diffuseness 76% connected

The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity;…

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Derivationally related 10

Dispersive 74% connected

Tending to disperse.

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Dispersive 74% connected

Tending to disperse.

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Dust 74% connected

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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Dust 74% connected

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…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Spread 74% connected

of Spread

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Spread 74% connected

of Spread

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Spreader 74% connected

One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

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Spreader 74% connected

One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

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Synonym 9

Dispel 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disperse 92% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dissipate 92% connected

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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Dot 92% connected

A marriage portion; dowry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dust 92% connected

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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Scattering 92% connected

of Scatter

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Spread 92% connected

of Spread

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Sprinkle 92% connected

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

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Strewing 92% connected

of Strew

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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