Expend vs Disperse - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between expend and disperse

is that expend is (label) to consume, exhaust (some resource) while disperse is .

(en verb)

(label) to consume, exhaust (some resource)

* , King Henry VI Part 2 , act 3, scene 1:

If my death might make this island happy

I would expend it with all willingness.

to spend, disburse

(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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