Dispose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To place or set in a particular order; arrange.
  • v. To put (business affairs, for example) into correct, definitive, or conclusive form.
  • v. To put into a willing or receptive frame of mind; incline. See Synonyms at incline.
  • verb-intransitive. To settle or decide a matter.
  • n. Obsolete Disposal.
  • n. Obsolete Disposition; demeanor.
  • phrasal-verb. dispose of To attend to; settle: disposed of the problem quickly.
  • phrasal-verb. dispose of To transfer or part with, as by giving or selling.
  • phrasal-verb. dispose of To get rid of; throw out.
  • phrasal-verb. dispose of To kill or destroy: a despot who disposed of all his enemies, real or imagined.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To eliminate or to get rid of something.
  • v. To distribute and put in place.
  • v. To deal out; to assign to a use.
  • v. To incline
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order.
  • v. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
  • v. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
  • v. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To bargain; to make terms.
  • n. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
  • n. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To set in order; place or distribute in a particular order; put; arrange: as, the ships were disposed in the form of a crescent; the trees are disposed in the form of a quincunx.
  • Specifically To regulate; adjust; set in right order.
  • To place, locate, or settle suitably: chiefly reflexive.
  • To give direction or tendency to; set, place, or turn (toward a particular end, consequence, or result, or in a particular direction); adapt.
  • To incline the mind or heart of.
  • To make over or part with, as by gift, sale, or other means of alienation; alienate or bestow: as, “he disposed all church preferments to the highest bidder,”
  • Synonyms To range, rank, group.
  • Order, regulate, fit.
  • Lead, induce.
  • To make disposition; determine the arrangement or settlement of something.
  • To bargain; make terms.
  • To exercise control over; direct the disposal or course of: as, they have full power to dispose of their possessions.
  • n. Disposal; power of disposing; management.
  • n. Dispensation; act of government; management.
  • n. Cast of behavior; demeanor.
  • n. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. throw or cast away
  • v. give, sell, or transfer to another
  • v. make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
  • v. place or put in a particular order
  • v. make fit or prepared
  • Antonym
    disincline    indispose   
    Verb Form
    disposed    disposes    disposing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    position    pose    put    set    lay    place   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    arrange    fit    distribute    order    give    set    adjust    adapt    incline    bestow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bose    Brose    Goes    Joes    Jos    Mose    Rose    Stavros    arose    bestows   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts