disperse

agitate the water to disperse the oil.

A prism disperses light.

The policemen dispersed the crowd.

The clouds dispersed themselves.

to decentralise and geographically disperse political and economic power

storms can disperse seeds via high altitudes.

nasty gases and smoke disperse into the ether.

The crowd had dispersed when the police arrived.

A gust of wind dispersed the smoke from the stove.

After school the children dispersed to their homes.

The police fired into the air in an attempt to disperse the crowd.

The airplane dispersed the leaflets over the city.

The storm clouds had dispersed by noon.

winds dispersed the bomb's radioactive cloud high in the atmosphere.

The density of population is low, meagerly-populated, live and disperse ;

caravan sites could be dispersed among trees so as to be out of sight.

emulsions should be examined after storage for droplet size of the disperse phase.