The children blow dandelions to see the seeds disperse on the wind.
Source: tatoeba (5617795)
Disperse
//dɪˈspɜːs//
Synonyms for "disperse" (300 found)
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Verb(25 words)
demolishdesolatedesparpledestroydevastatediscussdisgregatedisintegratedisparkledisparpledisperpledisseminatedissipatedissolvedotdustdwindleeliminateeradicateerase
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departdeploydetachdeviatediedie awaydie outdiffractdiffusedisappeardisbanddisbursedischargedisintegratedisjoindismissdisorganizedispeldispensedispose
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dispreaddisruptdisseminatedissipatedissolvedistortdistributedivergedivertdividedivvydo a fade-outdoglegdoledole outdwindleeaseease offemanateerodeevanesceevaporateexitexpandextendfadefade awayfade outfanfan outfissionflarefleeflightflyfragmentfreegivegive outgogo awaygo separate waysgo up in smokegrindhairpin
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Verb(50 words)
hideissueleave no traceleave the scenelet golet uplooseloosenmake mincemeat ofmeasuremeasure outmeltmelt awaymetemete outmincemuster outopenopen upoutspread
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outstretchovergrowoverrunoverscatteroversowoverspreadparcelparcel outpartpart companypartitionpasspass aroundpass awaypass outpay outperishportionportion outpropagatepublishpullpulverizeradiateramifyrationrayrefractrelaxreleaseresolveretailretire from sightroutsend awaysend offseparateshattershiversinksink awayskewslackslack offslackensmashsmash upsowsow broadcastsplaysplintersplit upspoonspoon outspraddlespranglesprawlsprayspreadspread like wildfirespread outsquashsquishstrewsuffer an eclipseturntwistunfoldunglueunleashunstickuttervanishvanish from sightwarpwastewaste awaywear awaywidenzigzag
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123 translations across 43 languages.
Amis
1 entries- palopisaken verb (to scatter)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σκεδάννυμι verb (to scatter)
Armenian
2 entries- ցրել verb (to scatter)
- ցրվել verb (to scatter)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- dağılmaq verb (to dissipate)
- dağıtmaq verb (to dissipate)
Bangi
1 entries- sanza verb (to scatter)
Basque
1 entries- sakabanatu verb (to scatter)
Bikol Central
1 entries- wagas verb (to scatter)
Bulgarian
3 entries- разпилявам verb (to scatter)
- разпръсквам verb (to scatter)
- разсейвам verb (to scatter)
Catalan
1 entries- dispersar verb (to scatter)
Czech
4 entries- rozehnat verb (to dissipate)
- rozesít verb (to scatter)
- rozptýlit verb (to scatter)
- rozptýlit verb (to dissipate)
Danish
1 entries- sprede verb (to scatter)
Dutch
1 entries- verstrooien verb (to scatter)
Esperanto
3 entries- aspergi verb (to scatter)
- disiĝi verb (to dissipate)
- dispeli verb (to scatter)
Finnish
4 entries- dispergoida verb (to refract)
- hajaantua verb (to scatter)
- hajota verb (to dissipate)
- hajota verb (to refract)
French
2 entries- disperser verb (to scatter)
- se disperser verb (to scatter)
Galician
4 entries- aquendar verb (to refract)
- debandar verb (to scatter)
- desengrear verb (to dissipate)
- destranxer verb (to refract)
German
4 entries- auffächern verb (to refract)
- aufteilen verb (to refract)
- dispergieren verb (to distribute)
- dissipieren verb (to dissipate)
Hungarian
1 entries- szétszór verb (to scatter)
Ido
2 entries- difuzar verb (to scatter)
- dispersar verb (to scatter)
Ingrian
2 entries- hajottaa verb (to scatter)
- harottaa verb (to scatter)
Irish
4 entries- ruaig verb (to scatter)
- scaip verb (to scatter)
- scaip verb (to dissipate)
- scaip verb (to disseminate)
Italian
4 entries- disperdere verb (to scatter)
- disperdere verb (to dissipate)
- disperdere verb (to refract)
- disperdere verb (to distribute)
Japanese
1 entries- 退散 verb (to scatter)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- wāvâ verb (to scatter)
Korean
1 entries- 흩다 verb (to scatter)
Latin
2 entries- dissipō verb (to scatter)
- dissipō verb (to dissipate)
Lingala
1 entries- panza verb (to scatter)
Manx
2 entries- scaalhean verb (to scatter)
- skeayl verb (to scatter)
Middle English
4 entries- dissolven verb (to dissipate)
- solven verb (to dissipate)
- sparplen verb (to scatter)
- sparplen verb (to dissipate)
Māori
4 entries- korara verb (to scatter)
- tohatoha verb (to scatter)
- tohatoha verb (to distribute)
- tītari verb (to scatter)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- utsamɓalia verb (to scatter)
Old English
1 entries- tōsċrīþan verb (to scatter)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- صاچمق verb (to scatter)
Polish
1 entries- rozproszyć verb (to scatter)
Portuguese
4 entries- dispersar verb (to scatter)
- disseminar verb (to disseminate)
- dissipar verb (to dissipate)
- distribuir verb (to distribute)
Russian
4 entries- преломи́ть verb (to refract)
- преломля́ть verb (to refract)
- разбра́сывать verb (to scatter)
- разброса́ть verb (to scatter)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sgaoil verb (to scatter)
Spanish
1 entries- dispersar verb (to scatter)
Tocharian B
1 entries- käsk verb (to scatter)
Turkish
1 entries- dağıtmak verb (to distribute)
Vietnamese
1 entries- rải rác verb (to scatter)
White Hmong
1 entries- w verb (to scatter)
ǃXóõ
1 entries- khàla verb (to scatter)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Fungi disperse spores.
Source: tatoeba (5672492)
The young folks now often shared their milk and wine, and made a common meal of the food which they had brought from home as provision for the day; and the sheep might sooner have been seen to disperse and browse apart, than Daphnis to separate himself from Chloe.
Source: tatoeba (6212387)
"There rest they, nor their sequence change, nor place, / save when, by chance, on grating hinge the door / swings open, and a light breath sweeps the floor, / or rougher blasts the tender leaves disperse. / Loose then they flutter, for she recks no more / to call them back, and rearrange the verse; / untaught the votaries leave, the Sibyl's cave to curse."
Source: tatoeba (7142396)
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