Both Uses
disperse
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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- He dispersed the crowd very simply by telling them he'd send for the pie wagon and take them all down to the station house if they didn't twenty-three skidoo.†
Chpt 14 *dispersed = scattered or spread
- They dispersed and went home quietly.†
Chpt 30
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)