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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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verb
To disperse; to scatter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: congregate, assemble, crowd, press
verb
To separate into individual parts, disjoin, disintegrate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
(according to obsolete theories of vision) To scatter or make divergent (visual rays); (by extension) to dazzle, confuse, dim (the sight).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
First attested in 1593; borrowed from Latin disgregātus, perfect passive participle of disgregō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
