Dictionary Entry
dispose
dispose is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
- 2transitive verb
To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
- 3transitive verb
To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5transitive verb
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.
- 6intransitive verb
To bargain; to make terms.
- 7noun
Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
- 8noun
Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.
- 9verb
make fit or prepared
"Your education qualifies you for this job"
Synonyms
- 10verb
make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief
"Their language inclines us to believe them"
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- 11verb
place or put in a particular order
"the dots are unevenly disposed"
- 12verb
throw or cast away
"Put away your worries"
- 13verb
give, sell, or transfer to another
"She disposed of her parents' possessions"
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