1.  disperse(v = verb.contact) dot, dust, scatter, sprinkle - distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"
is one way to discharge
Derived form adjective dispersive₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP

2.  disperse(v = verb.motion) break up, dispel, dissipate, scatter - to cause to separate and go in different directions; "She waved her hand and scattered the crowds"
is one way to divide, separate
Derived form noun dispersion₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody

3.  disperse(v = verb.change) break up, scatter - cause to separate; "break up kidney stones"; "disperse particles"
is one way to change integrity
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

4.  disperse(v = verb.motion) dissipate, scatter, spread out - move away from each other; "The crowds dispersed"; "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"
is one way to part, separate, split
Derived form noun dispersion₁
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s

5.  disperse(v = verb.contact) - separate (light) into spectral rays; "the prosm disperses light"
is one way to separate
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

6.  disperse(v = verb.communication) broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread - cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
is one way to air, bare, publicise, publicize
Derived forms noun dispersal₁, noun dispersion₃, adjective dispersive₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

disperse, v.
1 intr. & tr. go, send, drive, or distribute in different directions or over a wide area.
2 a intr. (of people at a meeting etc.) leave and go their various ways. b tr. cause to do this.
3 tr. send to or station at separate points.
4 tr. put in circulation; disseminate.
5 tr. Chem. distribute (small particles) uniformly in a medium.
6 tr. Physics divide (white light) into its coloured constituents.

Derivative:
dispersable adj. dispersal n. disperser n. dispersible adj. dispersive adj.

Etymology:
ME f. L dispergere dispers- (as DIS-, spargere scatter)

VB  spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust, impoverish, spill, drain, empty, disperse, cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter away, burn the candle at both ends, waste, squander, waste its sweetness on the desert air, cast one's bread upon the waters, cast pearls before swine, employ a steam engine to crack a nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel, labor in vain, cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve, leak, run to waste, ebb, melt away, run dry, dry up.

VB  be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

VB  decompose, decompound, analyze, disembody, dissolve, resolve into its elements, separate into its elements, electrolyze, dissect, decentralize, break up, disperse, unravel, crumble into dust.

VB  disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute, apportion, blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off, strew, straw, strow, ted, spirtle, cast, sprinkle, issue, deal out, retail, utter, resperse, intersperse, set abroach, circumfuse, turn adrift, cast adrift, scatter to the winds, spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

VB  diverge, divaricate, radiate, ramify, branch off, glance off, file off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, spread, scatter, disperse, deviate, part.