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disperse

verb
🔊/dɪˈspɜːs/
🔊/dɪˈspɜːrs/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they disperse
🔊/dɪˈspɜːs/
🔊/dɪˈspɜːrs/
he / she / it disperses
🔊/dɪˈspɜːsɪz/
🔊/dɪˈspɜːrsɪz/
past simple dispersed
🔊/dɪˈspɜːst/
🔊/dɪˈspɜːrst/
past participle dispersed
🔊/dɪˈspɜːst/
🔊/dɪˈspɜːrst/
-ing form dispersing
🔊/dɪˈspɜːsɪŋ/
🔊/dɪˈspɜːrsɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] to move apart and go away in different directions; to make somebody/something do this（使）分散，散开；疏散；驱散
    • The fog began to disperse.雾开始散了。🔊🔊
    • The crowd dispersed quickly.人群很快便散开了。🔊🔊
    • disperse somebody/something Police dispersed the protesters with tear gas.警察用催泪瓦斯驱散了抗议者。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • Police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators.警察动用催泪瓦斯驱散示威人群。
    • The cloud was dispersing as the day grew hotter.随着天气越来越热，云正在散布。
    • The crowd slowly began to disperse.人群开始慢慢散去。
    • The community was dispersed by the war.这个群体因战争而分散了。
    • The pollution in the air will disperse.空气中的污染会散去。
    • They dispersed the chemicals with a sheet of water.他们用一大滩水把那些化学剂冲走。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • quickly
    • rapidly
    • widely
    • …
    verb + disperse
    • begin to
    preposition
    • around
    • over
    • throughout
    • …
    See full entry
  2. [transitive, intransitive] disperse (something) to spread or to make something spread over a wide area散布；散发；传播 synonym scatter
    • The seeds are dispersed by the wind.这些种子由风传播。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • The bird-feeding system evenly disperses food and water.这一禽鸟喂养系统均衡地散布食物和水。
    • Warm air rises and disperses throughout the building.暖空气上升，遍及全楼。
    • geographically dispersed political and economic power地理上分散分布的政治和经济力量
    • The population in this area is quite widely dispersed.这一地区人口疏落。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • quickly
    • rapidly
    • widely
    • …
    verb + disperse
    • begin to
    preposition
    • around
    • over
    • throughout
    • …
    See full entry
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin dispers- ‘scattered’, from the verb dispergere, from dis- ‘widely’ + spargere ‘scatter, strew’.