Defray vs Disperse - What's the difference?
defray | disperse |
(obsolete) To spend (money).
To pay or discharge (a debt, expense etc.); to meet (the cost of something).
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
* 2009 , ‘A Viennese grind’, The Economist , 30 Jul 2009:
* 2010 , Roy Greenslade, The Guardian , 9 Dec 2010:
To pay for (something).
(intransitive) To scatter in different directions
* Bible, Proverbs xv. 7
* Cowper
(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
As verbs the difference between defray and disperse
is that defray is (obsolete) to spend (money) while disperse is .defray
English
Verb
(en verb)- The expenses of the war, while in progress, were defrayed by executing rich men and confiscating their property.
- Investors, meanwhile, got back a fraction of their money. Some say Mr Meinl’s €100m bail, paid by a source in Liechtenstein, should be used to defray their losses.
- In order to help defray the substantial costs involved, they then raised revenue through taking advertisements.
Anagrams
*disperse
English
Verb
- The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
- The lips of the wise disperse knowledge.
- Two lions, in the still, dark night, / A herd of beeves disperse .