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Verstreuen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • broadcast verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
  • disperse verb To scatter or spread out in different directions.
  • disseminate verb To sow and scatter principles, ideas, opinions, etc, or concrete things, for growth and propagation, like seeds.
  • scatter verb To cause to separate and move in different directions.
  • spread verb To open something out so it covers a wider area.
  • straggle verb To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.

Senses

Verstreuen is used for these senses in English:

  • broadcast (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
  • disperse (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
  • disperse (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
  • disseminate (intransitive) To become widespread.
  • scatter (transitive) To distribute loosely as by sprinkling.
  • spread (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. [from 13th c.]
  • straggle (intransitive) To act in a disorderly and irregular way.

broadcast — full definition

  1. verb To transmit a program or message by radio, television, or similar means to a wide audience.
  2. noun A radio or television program transmitted to the public.

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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