Usually means: Get rid of; throw away.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. dispose: Merriam-Webster
  2. dispose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dispose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dispose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dispose: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dispose, dispose: Wordnik
  7. dispose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dispose: Wiktionary
  9. dispose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dispose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dispose: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dispose, dispose: Dictionary.com
  13. dispose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dispose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dispose (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dispose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dispose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dispose: Rhymezone
  19. Dispose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dispose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. dispose: FreeDictionary.org
  22. dispose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. dispose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. dispose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispose: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technopedia (No longer online)
  2. dispose: Encyclopedia
  3. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dispose: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dispose)

▸ verb:  (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.
▸ verb:  To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
▸ verb:  To deal out; to assign to a use.
▸ verb:  To incline.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) The disposal or management of something.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Behaviour; disposition.

Similar:
discard, cast aside, cast out, cast away, throw away, throw out, chuck out, toss out, put away, incline, more...

Opposite:
keep, retain, hold onto, save, preserve

Types:
incinerate, compost, landfill, recycle, reuse, more...

Phrases:
dispose of, to dispose of, Dispose pattern, dispose of a course, more...

Adjectives:
void, public, virtual, how, disposal, idisposable, private, corresponding, subdue, note, must

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Similar:
discard, cast aside, cast out, cast away, throw away, throw out, chuck out, toss out, put away, incline, more...

Opposite:
keep, retain, hold onto, save, preserve

Types:
incinerate, compost, landfill, recycle, reuse, more...

Phrases:
dispose of, to dispose of, Dispose pattern, dispose of a course, more...

Adjectives:
void, public, virtual, how, disposal, idisposable, private, corresponding, subdue, note, must

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark green,     olive, more...



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