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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
disperse .
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Examples
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* illusion disperses, is really across the room from you* Hmmph your tactics are amatuer, the Darkside has tought me the advanced dark force arts.
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The Duke's name disperses armies, as the Pretender's raised them.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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The shock the viewer feels at his moral inadequacy, Berger argues, "disperses" his initial feelings of outrage, so that "the issue of the war which has caused that moment is effectively depoliticised".
Photography so good it hurts Sean O 2010
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And the equally cowardly IDF just "disperses" them!
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And the colder the water, the more slowly the oil disperses, which is actually a bad thing, because any oil is likely to stay there for decades if not centuries. "
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The secret to both light and dark doctoring involves the ability to escalate your inner feelings, doing so in a way that concentrates rather than disperses the energy of the emotion.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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In Mr. Deb's first chapter, "The Great Gatsby: A Rich Man in India," Mr. Chaudhuri is described as a man for whom "the flow of admiration lighting up the rich and the successful disperses before it reaches him, hinting that things have gone wrong somewhere."
New India, Old Schemes Deborah Baker 2011
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Liu thought the amount of money Chen disperses causes more burden than relief for the poor.
Commraderie Or Communism? Chinese Billionaire Hands Out Massive Amounts Of Money, Skepticism Abounds Carly Gillis 2011
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Whipping up the frenzy recently was a report about corruption in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an international public/private partnership that attracts and disperses funds to fight these diseases.
Catholic Relief Services: Global Fund Deserves Our Support Catholic Relief Services 2011
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The air disperses the pieces based on their weight.
Nuts for Pecans 2011
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