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was scattering
verb
To (cause to) separate and go in different directions; to disperse.
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He was scattering treasures to be discovered by chance.
"Everybody was scattering, running into rooms, behind columns," he said.
This group of Taliban was scattering under fire.
In 1952, when McCarthyism was scattering and demoralising his leftist brethren, his increasingly irrational behaviour was diagnosed as a symptom of Huntington's Disease passed down from his mother.
"Everybody was scattering from the park," said Lance Barksdell, 34, who said he looked out his window when he heard someone in the courtyard yell that "somebody is shooting".
Dr. Claude Canizares of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said that the exploded star had had 20 times the mass of the sun but was scattering enough oxygen to supply 1,000 future solar systems.
Similar(51)
"It was scattered".
The housing was scattered nationwide.
There was scattered applause.
"Guyanans?" There was scattered response.
Almost everything was scattered on the floor.
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