dispense
/dɪˈspɛns/ verb C1- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct. · to dispense justice
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription. · The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.· An optician can dispense spectacles.
- To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse. · She was dispensed from her vows and married Captain von Trapp.
He/she/it dispenses · Past dispensed · Past participle dispensed · -ing form dispensing
Verb forms
- Base form
- dispense
- He/she/it
- dispenses
- Past
- dispensed
- Past participle
- dispensed
- -ing form
- dispensing
From the library
Let us dispense with useless words.
I was so much better that I thought I could dispense with one.
One glance at the victim was enough to show the healer that his presence could be dispensed with.
Her younger sisters soon began to make interest with her for objects of happiness which she might in future be able to dispense.
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