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Scattered   /skˈætərd/   Listen
Scattered

adjective
1.
Occurring or distributed over widely spaced and irregular intervals in time or space.  "Scattered villages"
2.
Lacking orderly continuity.  Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, illogical, unconnected.  "A confused dream about the end of the world" , "Disconnected fragments of a story" , "Scattered thoughts"


Scatter

verb
(past & past part. scattered; pres. part. scattering)
1.
To cause to separate and go in different directions.  Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate.
2.
Move away from each other.  Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out.  "The children scattered in all directions when the teacher approached"
3.
Distribute loosely.  Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle.
4.
Sow by scattering.
5.
Cause to separate.  Synonyms: break up, disperse.  "Disperse particles"
6.
Strew or distribute over an area.  Synonyms: spread, spread out.  "Scatter cards across the table"



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"Scattered" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tom's arm, and scattered its contents away amongst the furze-bushes, sending the basket ...
— The Vast Abyss - The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam • George Manville Fenn
... peculiarly favorable to quiet conversation, as probably many an earnest couple, otherwise assorted than our friends, had assured themselves. The hill sloped abruptly away, and on the remnant of its crest were scattered two or three fragments of stone. Beneath, over the plain, lay the gathered twilight, through which, in the near distance, gleamed two or three lights from the chateau. Mrs. Bread rustled slowly after her guide, ...
— The American • Henry James
... while saving the lives of others you are wasting your own," said the furrier as he entered, looking at the surgeon, who sat, with opened books and scattered instruments, before the head of a dead man, lately buried and now disinterred, in which he had cut ...
— Catherine de' Medici • Honore de Balzac
... bright a smile as that the elder gentleman had received; for his respectful "Miss Bowen" pleased her much after the rude "Girl!" and the money tossed to her as if she were a beggar. When he came back the mail had arrived, and all scattered at once,—Mr. Fred to spend the dollar in more cigarettes, and Captain John to settle carefully in his button-hole the water-lily Aunt Mary gave him, before both young men went off to play tennis as if their bread depended ...
— A Garland for Girls • Louisa May Alcott
... She scattered her snow on the mountain's steep side, Then bade on swift skis her young manhood to glide; The North Sea she maddened with scourge of gales, Then bade her young manhood ...
— Poems and Songs • Bjornstjerne Bjornson


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