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Asperse vs Sperse - What's the difference?

asperse | sperse |

As verbs the difference between asperse and sperse

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

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

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    sperse

    English

    Verb

    (spers)
  • (obsolete) To disperse.
    • (Spenser)
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