meaning of scattered
1.  Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread. 
2.  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. 
3.  of Scatter
4.  lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered 
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