DISPERSED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

dispersed

verb

past tense of disperse

as in dissipated

to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified whole the crowd dispersed once the show ended

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as in scattered

to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart the family of the missing woman dispersed searchers to all corners of the national park

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as in disbanded

to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization the campaign staff dispersed almost immediately after the election

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Recent Examples of dispersed Riot police dispersed protesters using tear gas, stun grenades, and water cannons. — News Desk, Artforum, 21 Oct. 2026 For an intervention dispersed through a harbor and out to sea, that may be as close as the ocean gets to a meter reading. — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 More than 300 people also attempted to advance up the Avenue des Champs-Élysées before police dispersed the crowd with tear gas. — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 18 Oct. 2026 There are seven bedrooms and six full bathrooms dispersed throughout, with additional spaces including a billiards room with a bar, a cozy reading nook, and a sun porch with wraparound windows. — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2026 Anti-Japanese sentiment had motivated Amino’s move from Los Angeles to New York in 1935; the US deemed East Coast Japanese populations as more dispersed and thus less of a threat. — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2026 Federal wildlife managers euthanized 28,000 animals in California in 2025 and dispersed about 1 million more as part of a nationwide program meant to control invasive species and minimize danger to people, pets and livestock, new data shows. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026 The flurries of pigment inside them were dispersed by bursts of air delivered through the base of the box. — Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026 Electron microscopy and elemental analysis revealed that the iron-containing molecules were dispersed across the carbon at atomic and molecular scales rather than forming larger particles. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2026

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But at this distance the jet’s energy wouldn’t have dissipated much during its voyage through space.

— Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Nearly half a million utility customers were without power after Isaias slowly pushed through the Southeast and dissipated into a post-tropical cyclone tonight.

— Erika Angulo, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2026

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The Israelis bombed the cemetery where her friends were buried, leaving body parts and bones scattered for relatives to collect like a puzzle.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026
The feeling of a fading-but-potent New York is scattered across a compilation of Hall’s music drawn from more than 40 years of work, My Skyscraper, released under the name Nirosta Steel just a few months ago.

— Jack Denton, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026

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The task force became a magnet of congressional Republican criticism during the Biden investigation and was disbanded in February 2025 by then-Atty.

— Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
By 2002, the group had disbanded, but some of its members founded TOOOL and went on to launch yearly lock-picking competitions.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of disbanded

Verb

In 1986 the United States unilaterally declared that the trust was dissolved.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
Though the nonprofit has dissolved, Century Walk’s legacy lives on in Naperville with a collection of art pieces that span 53 locations across the city.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of dissolved

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The process recalls versioning in dub, where an existing recording is stripped down and reconstructed, its individual elements isolated, amplified or faded out entirely.

— Tara Anne Dalbow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2026
Most movie theaters disappeared decades ago and the culture of cinemagoing has faded from the lives of the younger generations.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

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