DISPERSE Copy link • DISPERSETRANS., dispellere (e.g., the cavalry; with the accessary notion of destroying): dispergere: dissipare (to dissipate, to scatter): disturbare (to divide by driving asunder): discutere (to break up by driving asunder; e.g., an assembly): disjicere (to throw asunder, or into flight; e.g., a phalanx): fugare (to put to flight; e.g., the enemy). INTRANS., (e.g., of a multitude) discurrere: diffugere: dilabi (to walk off; to dispense gradually or imperceptibly, of a crowd): diffluere (e.g., humor, latex).