The Only Use
disperse
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- Soon we were clustered around her desk, trying in our various ways to comfort her. ... Miss Caroline smiled, blew her nose, said, "Thank you, darlings," dispersed us, opened a book and mystified the first grade with a long narrative about a toadfrog that lived in a hall.
p. 31.5dispersed = spread (broke up the cluster)
Definitions:
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(1)
(disperse as in: the crowd dispersed) to scatter or cause to spread
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)