disperse

Phonetic Respelling: [ dih-spurs ]

Definition:

v. to drive or send off in various directions; scatter

Sentence:

The crowd started to disperse after the football game.

More example sentences:

The crowd started to disperse after the football game.

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How did the Professor disperse the cure?

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Who did Robert Kennedy send first, to disperse the crowd that had formed outside of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery?

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According to the story, what does disperse mean?

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Synonyms:

circulate; deal; spread

Antonyms:

collect; gather

Disperse rhymes:

• One Syllable Rhymes
  • bearce
  • bearse
  • bearss
  • burse
  • curse
  • firsts
  • furse
  • hearse
  • kearse
  • kerce
  • merce
  • nurse
  • pearse
  • perce
  • pers
  • perse
  • purse
  • scearce
  • terse
  • verse
  • worse
• Two Syllable Rhymes
  • adverse
  • averse
  • coerce
  • converse
  • disburse
  • diverse
  • emerse
  • immerse
  • inverse
  • obverse
  • perverse
  • rehearse
  • reverse
  • submerse
  • transverse
  • traverse
• Three Syllable Rhymes
  • intersperse
  • reimburse
• Four Syllable Rhymes
  • biodiverse