Groups and collections

Synonyms for disperse

The synonym for disperse recorded in this bank is scatter, in the sense "to break up and move apart in different directions, of a group". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for disperse

scatterverb, in the sense "to break up and move apart in different directions, of a group"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and disperse carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineGroups and collections

to break up and move apart in different directions, of a group

Police told the crowd to disperse before nightfall.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

scatter

Same sentence, swapped: Police told the crowd to scatter before nightfall.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for disperse in the sentence quoted.

convene
muster
congregate

Where disperse turns up in the game

disperse is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where disperse is the trap

siftverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is strain, in the sense "separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements", so disperse is there to be ruled out.

Play disperse

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so disperse reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

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