Synonyms of the word

dispel

• v. To drive away by scattering, or to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate.
• n. An act or instance of dispelling.

disperse

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
• v. (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light etc. according to wavelength; to refract.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
• adj. Scattered or spread out.

displace

• v. To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
• v. To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
• v. (of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
• v. (psycology) to repress.

dissipate

• v. To drive away, disperse.
• v. To use up or waste.
• v. To vanish by dispersion.

divide

• v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
• v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
• v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
• v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
• v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
• v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
• v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
• v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
• n. A thing that divides.
• n. An act of dividing.
• n. A distancing between two people or things.
• n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

scatter

• v. (ergative) To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
• v. (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
• v. (transitive, physics) To deflect (radiation or particles).
• v. (intransitive) To occur or fall at widely spaced intervals.
• v. (transitive) To frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow.
• v. (transitive) To be dispersed upon.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.