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disperse
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disperse as in:  the crowd dispersed

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  • At the end of the marching, the Hitler Youth divisions were allowed to disperse.  (source)
  • The Singing was over, the people were dispersing throughout the city, and the guards, no doubt, would soon resume their search for him.  (source)
    dispersing = leaving
  • The family eats, then disperses.  (source)
    disperses = leaves to go to different places
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  • Their fear of the guards, of the massacre they had so long awaited, was gone, dispersed by the roar and muscle of the bomber.  (source)
    dispersed = sent away
  • And first I had to wait for the mob to disperse.  (source)
    disperse = scatter (spread out)
  • Ralph looked back at the dispersing smoke in the horizon, then up at the mountain.  (source)
    dispersing = spreading (thinning out)
  • [The dust disperses.†  (source)
    disperses = scatters or spreads
  • Lactic dispersion rate: eighty-four.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
  • The trees grew dispersedly about the sward—great elms and oaks and beeches—and Lancelot was thinking about Guenever with a heavy heart.†  (source)
  • The weather stayed black, undispersed soot sitting on the snow.†  (source)
    undispersed = not scattered or spread
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undispersed means not and reverses the meaning of dispersed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • As when a fog disperseth gradually, Our vision traces what the mist involves Condens'd in air; so piercing through the gross And gloomy atmosphere, as more and more We near'd toward the brink, mine error fled, And fear came o'er me.†  (source)
    disperseth = scatters or spreads
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She disperseth" in older English, today we say "She disperses."
  • 25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.†  (source)
  • It was a long while before the crowd around the Weasley twins dispersed, then Fred, Lee and George sat up counting their takings even longer, so it was well past midnight when Harry, Ron and Hermione finally had the common room to themselves.  (source)
    dispersed = scattered and left
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