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dispose
English
Etymology
From French disposer.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s?po?z/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??sp??z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Verb
dispose (third-person singular simple present disposes, present participle disposing, simple past and past participle disposed)
- (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.
- To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene III
- Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 6
- Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
- 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ?ISBN, page 47:
- I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in […] .
- 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene III
- To deal out; to assign to a use.
- 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, diary entry for 1634
- what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
- 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, diary entry for 1634
- To incline.
- (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
- Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Suspicion
- They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
- At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
- (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
- (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
- the knightly forms of combat to dispose
Synonyms
- incline
- discard
Antonyms
- indispose
- disincline
Derived terms
- disposition
- disposal
- dispose of
Translations
Noun
dispose
- (obsolete) The disposal or management of something.
- (obsolete) Behaviour; disposition.
French
Verb
dispose
- first-person singular present indicative of disposer
- third-person singular present indicative of disposer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
- second-person singular imperative of disposer
Italian
Verb
dispose
- third-person singular past historic of disporre
Anagrams
- dispeso
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destruct
English
Etymology
Back-formation from destruction.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
destruct (third-person singular simple present destructs, present participle destructing, simple past and past participle destructed)
- (transitive) To intentionally cause the destruction of.
- Synonym: destroy
- (intransitive) To self-destruct.
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