Fly
Fly verb - To move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings.
Scatter
Scatter verb - To cause (members of a group) to move widely apart.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Alternatively, the person may not be in imminent danger of being splattered into pieces involuntarily, and merely decide to scatter himself into many many tiny bits which then fly away elsewhere.
Source: One to Million to One -
They crawl, they swarm, they eat leftover food, they stink, and they scatter when exposed to bright light (and some varieties can even fly).
Source: Creepy Cockroach -
In GaoGaiGar FINAL, TenRyuJin copies the attack, using missiles to scatter hundreds of reflective (and apparently refractive) mirrors, then calculating the angles on the fly to strike the enemy from multiple angles at once.
Source: Reflecting Laser
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