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The Meaning of dispose
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(v. t.) To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
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(v. t.) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
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(v. t.) To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
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(v. t.) To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.
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(v. t.) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.
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(v. i.) To bargain; to make terms.
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(n.) Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
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(n.) Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.
Synonyms
fling
,
cast aside
,
cast away
,
throw out
,
toss
,
cast out
,
throw away
,
toss out
,
discard
,
chuck out
,
incline
,
put away
,
toss away
,
qualify
,
lag
,
put to sleep
,
convulse
,
banish
,
tuck away
,
incarcerate
,
expel
,
thresh
,
flip
,
boot out
,
ban
,
kick out
,
slash
,
lock up
,
lock
,
turf out
,
put aside
,
remand
,
advance
,
shut up
,
blackball
,
chuck
,
jactitate
,
cast
,
splurge
,
put behind bars
,
sky
,
throw
,
thresh about
,
oust
,
imprison
,
immure
,
jail
,
exclude
,
thrash about
,
dismiss
,
shut away
,
jug
,
pitch
,
thrash
,
shun
,
drum out
,
turn out
,
gaol
,
drop
,
ostracise
,
lock in
,
lock away
,
ostracize
,
tuck in
,
eject
,
cast off
,
throw off
,
shake off
,
shed
,
be given
,
slope
,
lean
,
run
,
tend
,
stipulate
,
restrict
,
measure up
,
modify
,
condition
,
characterize
,
specify
,
characterise
,
influence
,
actuate
,
draw
,
impel
,
induce
,
move
,
stir
,
compel
,
drive
,
incite
,
instigate
,
persuade
,
sway
,
excite
,
lead
,
prompt
,
urge
,
sell
Antonyms
indispose
,
disincline
,
deter
,
dissuade
,
impede
,
prevent
,
restrain
,
retard
,
discourage
,
hinder
,
inhibit
Rhymes
alagoas
,
ambrose
,
arose
,
beaus
,
bestows
,
blose
,
blows
,
boase
,
boes
,
bongos
,
bose
,
boulos
,
bowes
,
bows
,
boze
,
brose
,
bulldoze
,
chose
,
close
,
clothes
,
compose
,
cose
,
cowes
,
crose
,
crows
,
croze
,
decompose
,
demos
,
depose
,
disclose
,
dominoes
,
dominos
,
doze
,
dubose
,
duclos
,
eaux
,
enclose
,
eskimos
,
expose
,
fallows
,
foes
,
foreclose
,
froze
,
ghose
,
glows
,
gloze
,
goes
,
goghs
,
gose
,
grose
,
groseclose
,
grows
,
hose
,
impose
,
interpose
,
joes
,
jos
,
juxtapose
,
klose
,
knows
,
kroes
,
kroeze
,
loews
,
logos
,
lowes
,
lows
,
meadows
,
melrose
,
misdiagnose
,
moes
,
mose
,
ngos
,
noes
,
nose
,
ohs
,
ooohs
,
oppose
,
ose
,
overexpose
,
owes
,
pharos
,
pose
,
pows
,
predispose
,
presuppose
,
primrose
,
propose
,
pros
,
prose
,
rainbows
,
reimpose
,
repos
,
repose
,
rockrose
,
rohs
,
rose
,
rowes
,
rows
,
shadows
,
slows
,
snows
,
sows
,
stavros
,
studios
,
superimpose
,
suppose
,
tempos
,
those
,
throes
,
throws
,
toes
,
tomorrows
,
tows
,
transpose
,
troas
,
yoes