0 present participle of disperse
1 to spread across or move away over a large area, or to make something do this:
Outside the church, the congregation shook hands with the vicar and began to disperse.
Can you be responsible for dispersing these notices everywhere around town, please?
The showers will be quite widely dispersed across the whole region.
Once the seeds are released into the air, the wind quickly disperses them.
We may well ask whether such elaborate vertical cultural transmission could occur at all if females were dispersing from natal groups, as happens among chimpanzees.
In reality, of course, the grant reduction heavily influenced national contributions to social benefits, dispersing obligations between levels of government.
It is hard to distinguish between insects captured dispersing to or from the site, foraging in the site or passing through.
