verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of dispense form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

distributed

Example

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"The newspaper began to lose readers when it dispensed with one of its most popular writers."

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