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Scatter vs Dispread - What's the difference?

scatter | dispread |

As verbs the difference between scatter and dispread

is that scatter is (ergative) to (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse while dispread is (archaic|rare) to spread out, to extend.

scatter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
    • the police scattered the crowds
    the crowd scattered
  • * Shakespeare
    • Scatter and disperse the giddy Goths.
  • To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
    • Her ashes were scattered at the top of a waterfall.
  • * Dryden
    • Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains, / Their scattered cottages, and ample plains?
  • (physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
  • To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
  • To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
    • to scatter hopes or plans

    Derived terms

    * scatterbrain * scatterplot * scattershot

    dispread

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic, rare) To spread out, to extend.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.ii:
  • *:In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].