to disperse a crowd

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• crowd — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 large number of people in one place ADJECTIVE ▪ big, bumper (BrE), capacity, enormous, good, great, huge, large, massive …   Collocations dictionary

• crowd — I n. throng 1) to attract, draw a crowd 2) to disperse a crowd 3) an enormous, huge, tremendous; overflow crowd 4) a crowd collects, gathers; disperses; thins out 5) a crowd mills, swarms (around the entrance) audience 6) a capacity crowd group… …   Combinatory dictionary

• crowd — crowd1 W2S2 [kraud] n 1.) a large group of people who have gathered together to do something, for example to watch something or protest about something crowd of ▪ a crowd of angry protesters ▪ a crowd of 30,000 spectators ▪ There were crowds of… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• disperse — dispersedly /di sperr sid lee/, adv. disperser, n. dispersibility, n. dispersible, adj. /di sperrs /, v., dispersed, dispersing, adj. v.t. 1. to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd. 2. to spread widely; dissemin …   Universalium

• disperse — di|sperse [dıˈspə:s US ə:rs] v [I and T] [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: disperser, from Latin dispergere to scatter ] 1.) if a group of people disperse or are dispersed, they go away in different directions ▪ Police used tear gas to disperse …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• disperse — verb (I, T) 1 if a group of people disperses or is dispersed, they separate and go away in different directions: The police used tear gas to disperse the crowd. 2 if something disperses or is dispersed, it spreads over a wide area: The clouds… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Crowd manipulation — March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 led by Martin Luther King Vladmir Lenin addresses a crowd of chee …   Wikipedia

• disperse — verb ADVERB ▪ quickly, rapidly ▪ widely ▪ The population in this area is very widely dispersed. ▪ evenly, uniformly ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• disperse */ — UK [dɪˈspɜː(r)s] / US [dɪˈspɜrs] verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms disperse : present tense I/you/we/they disperse he/she/it disperses present participle dispersing past tense dispersed past participle dispersed 1) if a crowd of people… …   English dictionary

• disperse — [[t]dɪspɜ͟ː(r)s[/t]] disperses, dispersing, dispersed 1) V ERG When something disperses or when you disperse it, it spreads over a wide area. The oil appeared to be dispersing... [V n] The intense currents disperse the sewage... [V …   English dictionary

• crowd — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. gathering, concourse, horde, press, mass, gang, mob, multitude; host, herd, swarm, rout, crush, throng; informal, set, coterie, clique; populace, rabble, hoi polloi. See assemblage. II (Roget s IV) n …   English dictionary for students