All 3 Uses
disperse
in
Lord of the Flies
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- Ralph looked back at the dispersing smoke in the horizon, then up at the mountain.
p. 67.1 *dispersing = spreading (thinning out)
- The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved.†
p. 92.5dispersed = scattered or spread
- He pointed past them to where the trickle of smoke dispersed in the pearly air.†
p. 178.5
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)