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