Synonyms of disperse
85 similar words · 3 opposite words
Another word for disperse is spread. Other synonyms of disperse are eliminate, scatter, ruin, harry and dispel. The opposite of disperse is collect.
Synonyms and similar words for disperse
verbTo break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- destroy
- annihilate
- aerosolize
- atomize
- bewreckTo wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
- blot out
- blotto
- dashTo ruin; to destroy.
- decompose
- demolish
- desolateTo devastate or lay waste somewhere.
- devastate
- diffuse
- disintegrate
- dissolveTo disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
- eliminateTo completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
- eradicateTo destroy completely; to reduce to nothing radically; to put an end to.
- erase
- exterminate
- extinguishTo put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.
- extirpateTo destroy completely; to annihilate.
- fuck vulgarTo break, to destroy.
- harryTo strip, lay waste, ravage.
- jazz
- lay wasteTo completely destroy, especially of a geographical area or region.
- level
- liquidateTo kill (someone), usually violently, and especially for some ideological or political aim; to assassinate, to murder...
- nukeTo destroy or erase completely.
- obliterateTo destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
- overturn
- pull down
- pulverizeAmerican and Oxford British spelling of pulverise.
- razeTo completely remove (someone or something), especially from a place, a situation, etc.; also, to remove from...
- ravageTo devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- remove
- ruinTo destroy or render something no longer usable or operable.
- ruinate
- stamp out
- total
- subvertTo overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
- unbreed figuratively
- unexist
- unmakeTo destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature.
- uprootTo destroy (something) utterly; to eradicate, exterminate.
- waste
- wipe out
- wipe off
- wreck
- benothing obsolete, rareTo reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- fordo obsolete
- overthrow rare
- race obsoleteTo level or tear down (a building, a town, etc.) to the ground; to demolish.
- ravel obsoleteTo destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
verbMore synonyms
- broadcast
- dispelTo drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
- distributeTo scatter or spread.
- dwindleTo break up or disperse.
- straggle
- flurr
- instrewTo strew about; scatter in or upon; spread.
- litter
- scatterTo (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
- spreadTo disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
- strew
- whiffleTo disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
- besprenge obsoleteTo sprinkle or scatter.
- desparple archaicTo scatter, to disparkle.
- discuss obsoleteTo drive away, disperse, shake off; said especially of tumors.
- disgregate obsoleteTo disperse; to scatter.
- disparkle obsoleteTo scatter around.
- disparple obsoleteTo scatter, disperse.
- disperple obsoleteTo scatter; to sprinkle.
- insperse obsoleteTo sprinkle; to scatter.
- overshake obsoleteTo shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse.
- resperse obsoleteTo sprinkle; to scatter.
- squander obsoleteTo scatter; to disperse.
- sparble obsolete, rareTo scatter, disperse.
- sparkle obsoleteTo disperse.
- sparse obsoleteTo disperse, to scatter.
- sperse obsoleteTo disperse.
- springe obsolete
- strinkle British, dialectalTo sprinkle or scatter.
- todrive obsoleteTo scatter.
- togo obsolete
- torat obsoleteTo scatter, disperse.
Opposite of disperse
Meaning of disperse
- verb To scatter in different directions.
- verb To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- verb To disseminate.
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