Dispose

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  • intransitive verb. To put into a willing or receptive frame of mind; incline.
  • intransitive verb. To place or set in a particular order; arrange.
  • intransitive verb. To determine the course of events.
  • phrasal verb. To finish dealing with something; settle.
  • phrasal verb. To give or transfer to someone else, especially permanently.
  • phrasal verb. To get rid of; throw out.
  • phrasal verb. To kill or destroy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Disposal; power of disposing; management.
  • noun. Dispensation; act of government; management.
  • noun. Cast of behavior; demeanor.
  • noun. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To bargain; to make terms.
  • noun. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
  • noun. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.
  • transitive verb. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order.
  • transitive verb. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
  • transitive verb. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To eliminate or to get rid of something.
  • verb. To distribute and put in place.
  • verb. To deal out; to assign to a use.
  • verb. To incline
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. throw or cast away
  • verb. give, sell, or transfer to another
  • verb. make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
  • verb. place or put in a particular order
  • verb. make fit or prepared
  • Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    lay  place  pose  position  put  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bose  Brose  Goes  Joes  Jos  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adapt  adjust  adjust  administer  affect  
    verb-form