Thesaurus:disperse
English
Verb
(transitive, intransitive)
Sense: to scatter in different directions
Synonyms
- besprenge (obsolete)
- broadcast
- desparple (archaic)
- discuss (obsolete)
- disgregate (obsolete)
- disparkle (obsolete)
- disparple (obsolete)
- dispel
- disperple (obsolete)
- disperse
- distribute [⇒ thesaurus]
- dwindle
- straggle
- flurr
- insperse (obsolete)
- instrew
- litter
- overshake (obsolete)
- resperse (obsolete)
- scatter
- squander (obsolete)
- sparble (obsolete, rare)
- sparkle (obsolete)
- sparse (obsolete)
- sperse (obsolete)
- spread
- springe (obsolete)
- strew
- strinkle (British dialect, rare)
- todrive (obsolete)
- togo (obsolete)
- torat (obsolete)
- whiffle
Antonyms
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Further reading
- “73. nonassemblage, dispersion” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “disperse” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.