disperse

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

dis·perse [disperse disperses dispersed dispersing] BrE [dɪˈspɜːs] NAmE [dɪˈspɜːrs] verb
1. intransitive, transitive to move apart and go away in different directions; to make sb/sth do this
•The fog began to disperse.
•The crowd dispersed quickly.
•~ sb/sth Police dispersed the protesters with tear gas.
2. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) to spread or to make sth spread over a wide area
Syn: ↑scatter
•The seeds are dispersed by the wind.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin dispers- ‘scattered’, from the verb dispergere, from dis- ‘widely’ + spargere ‘scatter, strew’.

Example Bank:
•Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.
•The bird-feeding system evenly disperses food and water.
•The cloud was dispersing as the day grew hotter.
•The crowd slowly began to disperse.
•The population in this area is quite widely dispersed.
•The seeds are dispersed over a wide area.
•Warm air rises and disperses throughout the building.
•geographically dispersed political and economic power
•to decentralize and geographically disperse political and economic power
•The community was dispersed by the war.
•The pollution in the air will disperse.
•They dispersed the chemicals with a sheet of water.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dissipate, scatter, spread out, break up, dispel, sprinkle, dot, dust