hajaantua — meaning in English

English meaning

• diffuse verb To spread something out through a substance or space, or to spread out that way.
• disperse verb To scatter or spread out in different directions.
• diverge verb To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.

Senses

hajaantua is used for these senses in English:

• break up (intransitive, idiomatic) To dissolve; to part.
• diffuse (intransitive) To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
• disperse (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
• diverge (intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

diffuse — full definition

1. verb To spread something out through a substance or space, or to spread out that way.
2. adjective Spread out over a wide area rather than concentrated in one place.
3. adjective Wordy and rambling rather than concise.

disperse — full definition

1. verb To scatter or spread out in different directions.
2. verb To spread information or resources widely.

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