All 3 Uses of
disperse
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- There was a great thriving noise and glitter; all minds were dispersed into this Christmas tinkling, whirring, carols, and signal chimes, and what we were doing in secret with our hands wasn't observable.†
Chpt 4dispersed = scattered or spread
- Yet when the thrill went off, like lightning smashed and dispersed into the ground, I knew it was basically only a transaction.†
Chpt 7 *
- The weather stayed black, undispersed soot sitting on the snow.†
Chpt 12undispersed = not scattered or spreadstandard 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.
Definition:
to scatter or cause to spread