Disperse vs Evacuate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between disperse and evacuate

is that disperse is while evacuate is to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

(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

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

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(evacuat)

To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.

The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.

* Burke

The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.

To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.

(figurative) To make empty; to deprive.

* Coleridge

Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.

To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.

To make void; to nullify; to vacate.

to evacuate a contract or marriage

(Francis Bacon)