disperse
v.v. to spread out or move in different directions. You use this when a crowd of people leaves a place or when seeds blow away in the wind.
v. to scatter or distribute over a wide area; to cause a group to break up and move in different directions. Often used in scientific contexts to describe the movement of particles or light.
The crowd began to disperse after the concert ended.
Police officers used loudspeakers to ask the protesters to disperse and clear the main road.
In autumn, many plants rely on the wind to disperse their seeds across the valley, ensuring that new growth is not concentrated in a single, overcrowded area.
From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.
Can be used both transitively ('the wind disperses seeds') and intransitively ('the crowd dispersed').
The smoke dispersed into everywhere.The smoke dispersed everywhere.Disperse is often used without a preposition when describing spreading over an area; 'into' is redundant here.