The Only Use of
disperse
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- 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)
Definition:
to scatter or cause to spread