| Dispose 1. (v. t.) To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. 2. (v. t.) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. 3. (v. t.) To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. 4. (v. t.) 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. 5. (v. t.) 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. 6. (v. i.) To bargain; to make terms. 7. (n.) Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. 8. (n.) Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. Thesaurus Entries adjust, administer, affect, aim, align, allocate, allot, apportion, arrange, array, assign, bear, bend, bend to, bestow, bias, bring, call the shots, carry, collocate, color, compose, conclude, conduce, consume, contribute, control, cool off, deal, deal out, deal with, decide, demolish, deploy, destroy, determine, devour, direct, disburse, discard, dispense, disperse, dispose of, distribute, do away with, dole, dole out, dump, eat, emplace, engage, enlist, finish off, fix, form, get a fix, get rid of, get to do, give away, give out, go, govern, grade, group, guide, harmonize, have a tendency, head, hierarchize, hold a heading, home in on, incline, induce, influence, install, interest in, issue, jettison, junk, knock off, lay out, lead, lean, line, line up, localize, locate, look to, lure, make over, marshal, measure out, mete, mete out, methodize, motivate, move, navigate, normalize, order, organize, pacify, parcel out, part with, pass around, pay out, persuade, pin down, pinpoint, place, point, point to, polish off, portion out, position, predispose, procure, prompt, put, put away, put in place, quiet, rally, range, rank, redound to, regiment, regularize, regulate, routinize, rule, scrap, sell, serve, set, set out, set toward, set up, settle, show a tendency, situate, soften up, space, spoon out, spot, standardize, steer, structure, sway, systematize, tempt, tend, tend to go, throw away, throw out, tinge, tone, tranquilize, transfer, trash, trend, triangulate, turn, urge, verge, warp, wear down, wear the pants, weigh with, work, work toward, zero in on |