Synonyms of dispersing

dispersing

verb

present participle of disperse

1

as in dissipating

to go off in different directions and cease to exist as a body or unified whole

the crowd dispersed once the show ended

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dissipating
• dissolving
• scattering
• disappearing
• fading
• disassembling
• evaporating
• dividing
• spilling
• separating
• disbanding
• melting
• diverging
• fleeing
• forking
• branching (out)
• clearing
• going (away)
• breaking up
• evanescing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• gathering
• meeting
• congregating

2

as in scattering

to cause (members of a group) to move widely apart

the family of the missing woman dispersed searchers to all corners of the national park

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scattering
• dissipating
• separating
• disbanding
• spreading
• isolating
• dispelling
• segregating
• squandering
• diffusing
• disseminating
• parting
• splitting (up)
• clearing out
• diverging
• breaking up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• collecting
• assembling
• gathering
• concentrating
• congregating
• clustering
• agglutinating
• uniting
• ingathering
• unifying
• conglomerating

3

as in dissolving

to cease to exist or cause to cease to exist as a group or organization

the campaign staff dispersed almost immediately after the election

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dissolving
• disbanding
• breaking up
• demobilizing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joining
• uniting
• incorporating
• banding
• consolidating
• hanging together

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dispersing

Other finds suggested that rather than dispersing, at least some of the town’s citizenry moved to Lauriacum along with the military. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Last year, Vought mandated that the NIH fund grants in their entirety up front, rather than dispersing funds on a yearly basis. — STAT, 23 Sep. 2026

By dispersing weapons across submarines, aircraft, land forces, unmanned systems, and allied bases, the United States could create multiple threats that China would have to account for simultaneously. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 18 Sep. 2026

The Retired Police Canine Foundation was selected as the recipient of these funds and is in charge of dispersing them to handlers across the state. — Sofia Saric, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

Open clusters are young clusters of stars that were born together and are now gradually dispersing, and Auriga’s open clusters are some of the best and brightest of their kind in the night sky. — Gemma Lavender, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2026

The brave new world of synthetic biology, in other words, is radically democratizing and dispersing access to the tools used to make bioweapons. — Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

The star will eventually die, destroying the lion and dispersing all the gas and dust into interstellar space. — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026

The bank also called in the federal government, with FBI agents dispersing to Bellum’s Burbank high-rise and the bank’s offices. — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026