Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dispersed
IPA transcription: [dɪsp'ɝst]
Pronunciations of dispersed
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dispersed, spread
    Meaning: distributed or spread over a considerable extent; "has ties with many widely dispersed friends"; "eleven million Jews are spread throughout Europe"
Usage examples
  • "EASTERN CONVENTION DISPERSED.
  • "It hides our preparations, and will be dispersed only when they are finished.
  • After the crowd had dispersed, Solomon John sat down to think of his writing again.
  • Mr. Campbell made no farther observation, but merely wished me a good journey, and the party dispersed for the evening.
  • NOTWITHSTANDING Mr. Craig's prophecy, the dark-blue cloud dispersed itself without having produced the threatened consequences.
  • 'Slow, you may be; sure, you are!' This he twice or thrice repeated with much complacency, as he again dispersed the legs of the Turkish trousers and bent the knees.
  • They were there besieged by the infuriated crowd, and after a short interchange of shots Lovejoy was killed, his friends dispersed, and the press once more--and this time finally--thrown into the turbid flood.
  • So saying, my uncle took in one hand Ruhmkorff's apparatus, which was hanging from his neck; and with the other he formed an electric communication with the coil in the lantern, and a sufficiently bright light dispersed the darkness of the passage.
  • By ten o'clock, when the crowds have dispersed and the purchasers have all gone home and gone to bed, the busy booth-keepers take down their stalls, pack up their wares, and disappear, leaving no trace of the night's gayeties to greet the morning sun.
  • See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind. Now on firm land they range, then in the flood They plunge tumultuous; or through reedy pools Rustling they work their way; no holt escapes Their curious search.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Open cluster, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Durian, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Michio Kaku, License CC BY-SA 4.0