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disperse

Best crossword clue

"Scatter widely"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /dɪˈspɜːs/Part of speech verbSorted deeiprssStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. To spread out or cause things to move apart over an area.

Word origin

From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.

Used in a sentence

  • The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
  • The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.
  • Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.

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