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disburse (dis BURS) (verb)
To pay out or to expend: Our cashier will disburse several thousand dollars later today.
The accounting department is scheduled to disburse Grover's travel expenses next week.
disperse (di SPURS) (verb)
To scatter something: The street department is scheduled to disperse the road salt as soon as some of the snow is removed.
Right after the company will disburse the weekly wages, the workers plan to quickly disperse so they can get home before the thunderstorm starts.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group D; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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disperse (verb), disperses; dispersed; dispersing
1. To drive or send off in various directions; to scatter: The police tried to disperse the crowd of protesters.
2. To spread widely; to disseminate: The role of the university is to disperse knowledge.
3. To dispel; to cause to vanish: The wind is dispersing the fog.
4. To cause particles to separate uniformly throughout a solid, a liquid, or a gas: For the face cream Susan needed, the pharmacist suggested that it should have certain ingredients that are dispersed evenly for the best results of her skin.
5. To dissipate, to cause the disappearance of, to scatter, to dilute: After Michael added the sugar to his hot tea, he stirred it and the sugar dispersed evenly and was completely dissolved.
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2. To spread widely; to disseminate: The role of the university is to disperse knowledge.
3. To dispel; to cause to vanish: The wind is dispersing the fog.
4. To cause particles to separate uniformly throughout a solid, a liquid, or a gas: For the face cream Susan needed, the pharmacist suggested that it should have certain ingredients that are dispersed evenly for the best results of her skin.
5. To dissipate, to cause the disappearance of, to scatter, to dilute: After Michael added the sugar to his hot tea, he stirred it and the sugar dispersed evenly and was completely dissolved.
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dis-, di-, dif-
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-sperse, -spersed, -spersing, -spersion; spars-; -spargic
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“disperse”
(Latin: horizontal layer; stretched, spread out; layer, cloud layer; strew, scatter, disperse)
(Greek: a suffix: to spread, to disperse; to move, to go; to withdraw, to advance; a means or agency for distribution)