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scattered
Part of speech: AdjectiveDispersed; thinly spread; dissipated; in bot., without apparent symmetry in arrangement.
Usage examples "scattered":- If we are to be frozen up it makes no difference that I can see, whether we are together or scattered as at present. - "By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic", G.A. Henty.
- The Romans dared not abide their coming, but scattered on the plain. - "Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut", Wace.
- I scarcely ever went into his room where, scattered upon the table, there was an appalling number of large books. - "The Story of a Child", Pierre Loti.