disperse
verb- [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 ExamplesPolice 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,云正在消散。 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. 空气中的污染会消散。 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
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- begin to
- around
- over
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- [transitive, intransitive] disperse (something)
to spread or to make something spread over a wide area synonym scatter散布;散发;传播 Extra ExamplesThe 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
- …
- begin to
- around
- over
- throughout
- …
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin dispers- ‘scattered’, from the verb dispergere, from dis- ‘widely’ + spargere ‘scatter, strew’.