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disperse

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At about 11 p.m. State Police started flying a helicopter over the scene, ordering the crowds to disperse.

Two officers, their badge numbers covered by black tape, watch as guests disperse from a house party they have recently disrupted.

This is a problem, since no traffic police can identify any of the trucks if they start to disperse once they enter Ukraine.

When a big cache of weapons is inbound, rival outfits often gang together to disperse the load among their safe houses.

“Instead of car tires, concrete blocks are placed there now, and nobody intends to disperse,” the minister said.

When the last scarlo is burned out a funeral march is played and all disperse to their homes.

So the clouded day broke sullenly, with gusts of warm rain and red gleams of a sun striving to disperse the mists.

During the night they disperse, and take up their abode on surrounding farms as peaceful tillers of the soil.

Plants are the accumulators of the power which animals distribute and disperse.

When others gather, do thou disperse; when others disperse, gather.

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On this page you'll find 102 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to disperse, such as: break up, circulate, diffuse, disappear, disband, and discharge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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