disperse vs publicise

disperse and publicise both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
disperse	No	No	Yes	No
publicise	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, publicise is a hypernym of disperse; that is, publicise is a word with a broader meaning than disperse:

Other hypernyms of disperse include air, bare, publicize.

disperse (verb)	publicise (verb)
cause to separate	make public
cause to become widely known	call attention to
distribute loosely
separate (light) into spectral rays
move away from each other
to cause to separate and go in different directions