<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.</li><li>to spread widely; disseminate: to disperse knowledge.</li><li>to dispel; cause to vanish: The wind dispersed the fog.</li><li>to cause (particles) to separate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid, or gas.</li><li>to subject (light) to dispersion.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a crowd that has separated and moved apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered: The crowd dispersed.</li><li>to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish: The smoke dispersed into the sky.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>noting the dispersed particles in a dispersion.</li></ul>