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Stalingrad, Battle of(encyclopedia)

disperse (oh) and Stalingrad (oh)


disperse (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: disperser, from Latin dispergere 'to scatter']
if a group of people disperse or are dispersed, they go away in different directions
::Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
if something disperses or is dispersed, it spreads in different directions over a wide area
::The clouds dispersed as quickly as they had gathered.

Stalingrad (oh)



the old name for the city of Volgograd in the former Soviet Union, on the River Volga. The city was almost destroyed in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-43 and many Russians were killed, when the German army tried unsuccessfully to take control of it.