disperse
Syllables: dis·perse/dɪˈspɜːs/US/dɪˈspɝs/
disperse verb: to scatter in different directions.
Verb
disperse (third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed)
- To scatter in different directions.
- The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
- The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 15:7, column 1
- To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- Synonyms:
- destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, dash, decompose
- To disseminate.
- To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- To distribute throughout.
Adjective
disperse (comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse)
- Scattered or spread out.
- Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.1998, James-Yves Roger, Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities
- In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.2014, Didier J. Dubois, Readings in Fuzzy Sets for Intelligent Systems, page 85
disperse meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
disperse in Hindi
- to disperse, clear up
- खुलना khulnā
disperse in Tamil
- கலைதல், கலையச் செய், சிதறு, தூவு, பரப்பீடு, பரவு
disperse in Marathi
- to disperse, scatter
- पांगणे pāṅgṇe
disperse in Urdu
- بکھرنا, بھگا دینا, بکھیرنا, منتشر کرنا, پاؤں اکھاڑنا, تتر بتر کرنا
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- disperse in Bengali
- ছত্রভঙ্গ করা, ছড়িয়ে দেওয়া, বিভিন্ন দিকে সরিয়ে দেওয়া
- disperse in Telugu
- చెదరగొట్టడానికి, చెదరగొట్టేందుకు
- disperse in Malayalam
- പിരിയുക piriyuka
- disperse in Kannada
- ಚದುರು, ಹರೆ, ಚದರು, ಕೆದರಿಹೋಗು
- disperse in Sanskrit
- भिनत्ति bhinátti, स्फुट् sphuṭ
- disperse in Vietnamese
- rải rác
Examples of disperse in a sentence
- Afrodescendants (or simply Afros) are the descendants of Africans who were dispersed.
- Fauxtomation does not directly replace human labor; rather, it relocates and disperses it in space and time.
- She and her group did not disperse even after the katha had commenced.
Synonyms of disperse
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Antonyms
Forms of disperse
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | disperses |
| present participle | dispersing |
| past participle | dispersed |
| past | dispersed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more disperse |
| superlative | most disperse |
Origin of disperse
From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.
Words formed from disperse
Phrases with disperse
Words that rhyme with disperse
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- worse
- -verse
- coerce
- converse
- excurse
- immerse
- multiverse
- obverse
- terce
- terse
- amerce
- asperse
- herse
- neurodiverse
- perse
- reimburse
- transverse
- a blessing and a curse
- absterse
- accurse
- costotransverse
- demerse
- disburse
- Erse
- intertransverse
- megadiverse
- murse
- nontransverse
- pretransverse
- public purse
- recurse
- renverse
- sperse
- submerse
- subtransverse
- thurse
Questions about disperse
- What does disperse mean?
- Disperse means to scatter in different directions.
- What is disperse in Hindi?
- Disperse in Hindi is खुलना (khulnā). See Disperse meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is disperse?
- Disperse can be a verb or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce disperse?
- Disperse is pronounced /dɪˈspɜːs/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of disperse?
- The past tense of disperse is dispersed.
Words near disperse in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: disperse (page history and authors); खुलना (Hindi) (page history and authors); disperse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); पांगणे (Marathi) (page history and authors); disperse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Disperse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disperse (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); പിരിയുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); disperse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); भिनत्ति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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