Proliferate vs Disperse - What's the difference?
proliferate | disperse |
To increase in number or spread rapidly.
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, chapter=2 (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 proliferate and disperse
is that proliferate is to increase in number or spread rapidly while disperse is .proliferate
English
Verb
(proliferat)- The flowers proliferated rapidly all spring.
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
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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 .