Lose
Scatter
Scatter verb - To cause (members of a group) to move widely apart.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The Electoons who used to gravitate around it lose their natural stability and scatter all over the world!
Source: Video Game / Rayman (1995) -
Killing the centurion makes it much easier to defeat them; without killing him a group of fifty fully armed browns will lose nearly thirty of its members before breaking the phalanx and causing the soldiers to scatter.
Source: Straight for the Commander -
Killing the Centurion makes it much easier to defeat them; without killing him, a group of fifty fully armed Browns will lose nearly thirty of its members before breaking the phalanx and causing the soldiers to scatter.
Source: Video Game / Overlord II
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