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to scatter / to disperse / to distribute
HSK 4
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to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack
HSK 4
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scattered / loose / to come loose / to fall apart / leisurely / powdered medicine
HSK 5
to disperse in confusion (idiom)
to scatter / to break sth up / to beat (an egg)
to dissipate everywhere (of light, sound, gas etc)
laid back; leisurely / (of resources: workers, funds etc) unused; idle
(idiom) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate
to scatter; to disperse; to evacuate / scattered; sparse
HSK 7-9
to dissolve / to disband
HSK 7-9
(of a nation, government etc) demoralized / disunited
lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom) / fig. to head off in various directions / to flee helter-skelter
(idiom) to part without hard feelings; to cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it
to disperse / to diverge
to spread; to proliferate; to diffuse
HSK 7-9
lit. Even if we don't see each other, don't give up and leave (idiom) / fig. Be sure to wait! / See you there!
nuclear proliferation
When the tree topples the monkeys scatter. (idiom); fig. an opportunist abandons an unfavorable cause / Rats leave a sinking ship.
(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
to disperse after a happy time (idiom) / everyone enjoys themselves to the full then party breaks up
to waft (through the air); to drift
(of troops) to be routed and dispersed
to disperse
lit. the soul of a deceased has not yet dispersed (idiom) / fig. the influence still lingers on / the spirit (of some doctrine) is still alive
idle; leisurely; laid-back / Taiwan pr. [shu1san4]
to relax / loose / not consolidated / not rigorous
to disperse / to scatter in all directions
(of family members) separated from one another; scattered about; dispersed / (math.) discrete
to dissipate
indolent; negligent; slack
(plant) evapotranspiration
to wander off / to stray / to get lost
the clouds melt and the mists disperse (idiom) / to clear up / to vanish into thin air
to part on bad terms / (of a meeting etc) to break up in discord
nuclear nonproliferation
emergency evacuation
a family wrenched apart (idiom)
gaseous diffusion
lit. dispersed by wind and scattered like clouds (idiom); fig. scattered far and wide (of friends and relatives)
(of smoke) to disperse; to dissipate / (of birds) to fly away in all directions
lit. the soul flies away and scatters (idiom) / fig. to be frightened stiff / spooked out of one's mind / terror-stricken
(of gas, liquid, toxins, heat etc) to escape; to dissipate
wuling powder (decoction of poria mushroom used in TCM) / poria five powder / Hoelen five powder / five ling powder
to lose touch with / missing / scattered / separated from
to scatter; to disperse
lit. to scatter like birds and beasts (idiom) / fig. to flee in all directions
to disperse (a crowd etc) / (fig.) to dispel (misgivings etc)
(literary) idle; unemployed / (literary) (of writing) leisurely and verbose
to dissipate / to squander
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variant of
HSK 4
to assemble (goods, passengers etc from various locations) and dispatch (them)
loose; ruffled; disheveled
coming together and separating / aggregation and dissipation
unemployed and idle
to scatter like birds and beasts
to break up (a marriage, family etc)
to retreat and scatter / to recede; to wane
to disband / to dismiss / demobilization
to slacken / lax / slack / disorganized
scattered


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