disgregate

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verb

To disperse; to scatter.

Opposite
congregateassemblecrowdpress
OriginLatin disgregātus →
Scrabble 13
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Meanings

verbdisgregate (third-person singular simple present disgregates, present participle disgregating, simple past and past participle disgregated)

present singular third person disgregates · participle present disgregating · participle past disgregated · past disgregated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo disperse; to scatter.

    Antonyms: congregate, assemble, crowd, press

  2. obsoletetransitiveTo separate into individual parts, disjoin, disintegrate.

    Heat, seems to consist of rare parts, and disgregates bodies.

    1660, Thomas Stanley, III. i. 133, in History of Philosophy
  3. obsoletetransitive(according to obsolete theories of vision) To scatter or make divergent (visual rays); (by extension) to dazzle, confuse, dim (the sight).

    Black doth congregat, unite, and fortifie the sight; the other doth disgregat, scatter, and enfeeble it.

    1645, James Howell, VI. liii. 81, in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo disperse; to scatter.

Opposite
congregateassemblecrowdpress
Also see
dispersesparse

Origin

  1. Latindisgregātus
  2. Englishdisgregate

First attested in 1593; borrowed from Latin disgregātus, perfect passive participle of disgregō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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Chicago

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