| 单词 | dispersed |
| 释义 | dispersed (once / 712 pages) adj The adjective dispersed can describe anything that's spread across a distance. You might use the Internet to stay in touch with your dispersed family, who live everywhere from Maine to California. The Latin root of dispersed is dispersus, meaning "to scatter." Anything that's distributed or spread out can be described as dispersed, used either as an adjective or a verb. Seeds that are planted evenly across a huge field are dispersed. When a crowd of people gathered in one place all leave, heading in different directions from where they met, you can say they dispersed. WORD FAMILYdispersed: dispersedly+/dispersal: dispersals/disperse: dispersal, dispersed, disperses, dispersing, dispersion, dispersive/dispersion: dispersions/dispersive: dispersively USAGE EXAMPLESThe crowd dispersed and arriving police found the man dead from a gunshot wound just outside the recreation building. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) The “whatnots” are dispersed throughout the shop and include silverware, ceramics, clothing, books and trinkets. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) The mercury got a boost from a record-challenging El Niño event, a cyclical warming of the tropical Pacific, which dispersed heat around the globe. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) adj distributed or spread over a considerable extent has ties with many widely dispersed friends Syn spread distributed spread out or scattered about or divided up |
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