Meaning & use
Dispersing
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Spreading out or scattering over a wide area, or causing a group to break up and go in different directions.
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Police ordered the crowd to begin dispersing after the rally ran past its permitted time.
The seeds are designed for dispersing on the wind over long distances.
A note on using this word
Used both for crowds of people and for scientific phenomena, such as light dispersing through a prism or pollen dispersing in the air.
Words with a similar meaning
scatteringspreading
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Words with an opposite meaning
gatheringassembling
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