Word Meanings - DISPERSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of

Additional info about word: DISPERSE

1. To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge. Prov. xv. 7. Two lions, in the still, dark night, A herd of beeves disperse. Cowper. 2. To scatter, so as to cause to vanish; to dissipate; as, to disperse vapors. Dispersed are the glories. Shak. Syn. -- To scatter; dissipate; dispel; spread; diffuse; distribute; deal out; disseminate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISPERSE)

• Dispel
• Disperse
• scatter
• dissipate
• drive away
• dismiss
• Scatter
• Strew
• sprinkle
• disperse
• spread
• broadcast
• disseminate
• propagate
• squander
• Spread
• Extend
• stretch
• expand
• open
• unfurl
• divulge
• publish
• diffuse
• overlay
• distribute
• circulate
• ramify

Related words: (words related to DISPERSE)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• PUBLISH
  Etym: 1. To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict. Published was the bounty of her name. Chaucer. The unwearied sun, from day to day,
• PUBLISHER
  One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine. For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. Shak.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• OVERLAY
  To put an overlay on. (more info) 1. To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon. When any country is overlaid by the multitude which live upon it. Sir W. Raleigh. As when a cloud his beams
• DRIVEL
  To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
• DRIVE
  To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• UNFURL
  To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• DIFFUSE
  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 disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• STREWN
  p. p. of Strew.
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• DISPERSED
  Scattered. -- Dis*pers"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*pers"ed*ness, n. Dispersed harmony , harmony in which the tones composing the chord are widely separated, as by an octave or more.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• EXTEND
  To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
• DISSIPATED
  1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• REPUBLISH
  To publish anew; specifically, to publish in one country (a work first published in another); also, to revive by re Subsecquent to the purchase or contract, the devisor republished his will. Blackstone.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• FORDRIVE
  To drive about; to drive here and there. Rom. of R.