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Asperse vs Disperse - What's the difference?

asperse | disperse |

As verbs the difference between asperse and disperse

is that asperse is to sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust) while disperse is .

asperse

English

Verb

(aspers)
  • To sprinkle or scatter (liquid or dust).
  • To falsely or maliciously charge another.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Quotations

    * 2004': a hand in San Marco's font / '''aspersed him with foul canal water — Derek Walcott, ''The Prodigal, (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2004) page 102

    Anagrams

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    disperse

    English

    Verb

  • (intransitive) To scatter in different directions
    • The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xv. 7
    • The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
  • * Cowper
    • Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .
  • (intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate
  • (intransitive) To disseminate
  • (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract
  • (intransitive) To distribute throughout

    • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite similarity.

    Related terms

    * dispersal * dispersible * dispersion

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