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disperse

CEFR: B2

To distribute, scatter widely, or spread animal, plant, or cultural elements over vast geography.

Synonyms

disseminate
scatter

Common Collocations

disperse seeds
widely disperse
disperse across

Example Sentence

Ocean currents and tropical storms helped ancestral human voyagers disperse across the Wallacean archipelago.

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