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Dispose

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Verb

1. dispose

give, sell, or transfer to another

Example Sentences:
'She disposed of her parents' possessions'

2. cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss, toss away, toss out

throw or cast away

Example Sentences:
'Put away your worries'

3. dispose, incline

make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief

Example Sentences:
'Their language inclines us to believe them'

4. dispose

place or put in a particular order

Example Sentences:
'the dots are unevenly disposed'

5. dispose, qualify

make fit or prepared

Example Sentences:
'Your education qualifies you for this job'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dispose

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verb
1. (intransitive; foll by of)
a. 
to deal with or settle
b. 
to give, sell, or transfer to another
c. 
to throw out or away
d. 
to consume, esp hurriedly
e. 
to kill
2. 
to arrange or settle (matters) by placing into correct or final condition
man proposes, God disposes
3. (transitive)
to make willing or receptive
4. (transitive)
to adjust or place in a certain order or position
5. (transitive; often foll by to)
to accustom or condition
noun
6.  an obsolete word for disposal, disposition

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Dispose

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verb transitiveWord forms: disˈposed or disˈposing
1. 
to place in a certain order or arrangement
2. 
to arrange (matters); settle or regulate (affairs)
3. 
to make willing; incline
4. 
to make susceptible or liable
verb intransitive
5. 
to have the power to arrange or settle affairs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dispose

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v. dis·posed, dis·pos·ing, dis·pos·es
v.tr.
1. To put into a willing or receptive frame of mind; incline: "If we're going to preach the politics of virtue, then we need to promote the social conditions that dispose people to be virtuous" (Lillian B. Rubin).
2. To place or set in a particular order; arrange: "Sally ... was beginning to loosen the upper sheet and dispose the pillows" (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
v.intr.
To determine the course of events: Man proposes, God disposes.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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