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Dispose

Dispose Meaning & Definition
Dispose Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dispose?

[v] make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job"
[v] make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them"
[v] throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"
[v] give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents' possessions"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dispose: cast aside | cast away | cast out | chuck out | discard | fling | incline | put away | qualify | throw away | throw out | toss | toss away | toss out

Related Terms | Find terms related to Dispose: adjust | administer | affect | aim | align | allocate | allot | apportion | arrange | array | assign | bear | bend | bend to | bestow | bias | bring | call the shots | carry | collocate | color | compose | conclude | conduce | consume | contribute | control | cool off | deal | deal out | deal with | decide | demolish | deploy | destroy | determine | devour | direct | disburse | discard | dispense | disperse | dispose of | distribute | do away with | dole | dole out | dump | eat | emplace | engage | enlist | finish off | fix | form | get a fix | get rid of | get to do | give away | give out | go | govern | grade | group | guide | harmonize | have a tendency | head | hierarchize | hold a heading | home in on | incline | induce | influence | install | interest in | issue | jettison | junk | knock off | lay out | lead | lean | line | line up | localize | locate | look to | lure | make over | marshal | measure out | mete | mete out | methodize | motivate | move | navigate | normalize | order | organize | pacify | parcel out | part with | pass around | pay out | persuade | pin down | pinpoint | place | point | point to | polish off | portion out | position | predispose | procure | prompt | put | put away | put in place | quiet | rally | range | rank | redound to | regiment | regularize | regulate | routinize | rule | scrap | sell | serve | set | set out | set toward | set up | settle | show a tendency | situate | soften up | space | spoon out | spot | standardize | steer | structure | sway | systematize | tempt | tend | tend to go | throw away | throw out | tinge | tone | tranquilize | transfer | trash | trend | triangulate | turn | urge | verge | warp | wear down | wear the pants | weigh with | work | work toward | zero in on

See Also | abandon | capacitate | close out | de-access | deep-six | dump | get rid of | give it the deep six | groom | habilitate | jettison | junk | liquidize | pension off | predispose | prepare | redispose | remove | retire | scrap | sell | sell off | sell out | sell up | train | trash | unlearn | waste

Dispose In Webster's Dictionary

\Dis*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disposed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disposing}.] [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to place. See {Pose}.] 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world? --Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. --Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. --Spenser. 2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. --Dryden. 3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. --Evelyn. 4. 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. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes. --Dryden. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. --Bacon. {To dispose of}. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. --Locke. (b) 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. More water . . . than can be disposed of. --T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business. --Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. --Waller. Syn: To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.
\Dis*pose"\, v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.] She had disposed with C[ae]sar. --Shak.
\Dis*pose"\, n. 1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.] But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. --Speed. 2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.] He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected. --Shak.

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