disperse

Etymology
From, from , past participle of , from + ; see sparse.

Verb

 * 1)  To scatter in different directions.
 * 2)  To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
 * 3)  To disseminate.
 * 4)  To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
 * 5)  To distribute throughout.
 * 1)  To disseminate.
 * 2)  To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
 * 3)  To distribute throughout.
 * 1)  To distribute throughout.

Usage notes

 * Do not confuse with the monetary word, despite the two being near homophones and having a degree of semantic similarity (in which disbursed money may be dispersed among expenses). A mnemonic to help make the difference obvious (which uses a cognate of each word) is that dĭs-burs-ing is taking money out of the purse, whereas dĭ-spers-ing causes something to be sparsely scattered.

Translations

 * Amis: palopisaken
 * Armenian: ,
 * Basque: sakabanatu
 * Bikol Central: wagas
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: rozesít, rozptýlit
 * Danish: sprede
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: dispeli, aspergi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: esparexer, debandar, espernexar,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκεδάννυμι
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: ,
 * Ingrian: hajottaa, harottaa
 * Irish: scaoil, ruaig
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 흩다
 * Latin: dissipō
 * Manx: scaalhean, skeayl
 * Maori: korara, tītari, tītaritari, whakaehu, tohatoha
 * Middle English: sparplen
 * Ngazidja Comorian: tsamɓalia
 * Old English: tōsċrīþan
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , , , , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sgaoil
 * Spanish:
 * Tocharian B: käsk-
 * Vietnamese:
 * White Hmong: w
 * ǃXóõ: khàla


 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Czech: rozptýlit,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician:, desengrear
 * German: dissipieren
 * Italian:
 * Latin: dissipō
 * Maori: whakaehu
 * Middle English: sparplen, solven, dissolven
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Italian: disseminarere
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:, , dispergoida
 * Galician: destranxer,
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese: refratar
 * Russian: ,


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: tohatoha
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Turkish:

Adjective

 * 1) Scattered or spread out.