Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to dispose
Participle: disposed
Gerund: disposing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | dispose |
| you | dispose |
| he;she;it | disposes |
| we | dispose |
| you | dispose |
| they | dispose |
Perfect
| I | have disposed |
| you | have disposed |
| he;she;it | has disposed |
| we | have disposed |
| you | have disposed |
| they | have disposed |
Past
| I | disposed |
| you | disposed |
| he;she;it | disposed |
| we | disposed |
| you | disposed |
| they | disposed |
Pluperfect
| I | had disposed |
| you | had disposed |
| he;she;it | had disposed |
| we | had disposed |
| you | had disposed |
| they | had disposed |
Future
| I | will dispose |
| you | will dispose |
| he;she;it | will dispose |
| we | will dispose |
| you | will dispose |
| they | will dispose |
Future Perfect
| I | will have disposed |
| you | will have disposed |
| he;she;it | will have disposed |
| we | will have disposed |
| you | will have disposed |
| they | will have disposed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | dispose |
| you | dispose |
| he;she;it | dispose |
| we | dispose |
| you | dispose |
| they | dispose |
Perfect
| I | have disposed |
| you | have disposed |
| he;she;it | have disposed |
| we | have disposed |
| you | have disposed |
| they | have disposed |
Imperfect
| I | disposed |
| you | disposed |
| he;she;it | disposed |
| we | disposed |
| you | disposed |
| they | disposed |
Pluperfect
| I | had disposed |
| you | had disposed |
| he;she;it | had disposed |
| we | had disposed |
| you | had disposed |
| they | had disposed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would dispose |
| you | would dispose |
| he;she;it | would dispose |
| we | would dispose |
| you | would dispose |
| they | would dispose |
Perfect
| I | would have disposed |
| you | would have disposed |
| he;she;it | would have disposed |
| we | would have disposed |
| you | would have disposed |
| they | would have disposed |
Imperative
| you | dispose |
| we | Let's dispose |
| you | dispose |
Verbs conjugated like 'dispose'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'dispose'
despose,
dispise,
dispone,
dispope,
dispost,
depose,
despise,
diosmose,
disbase,
discase,
Additional Information
Etymology
1. c.1340, from O.Fr. disposer (infl. by poser "to place"), from O.Fr. despondre, from L. disponere "put in order, arrange," from dis- "apart" + ponere "to put, place" (see position). Disposition "temperament" is 1387, from astrological use of the word for "position of a planet as a determining influence." Disposable in the modern sense is first recorded 1943, originally of diapers, soon of everything; replaced throw-away (1928). First recorded use of disposable income is from 1948.
2. Borrowed from French disposer.
Sample Sentences
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[...] its late freight, who instantly pervade the whole ship, and are to be met with by the dozen in every nook and corner: swarming down below with their own baggage, and stumbling over other people 's; disposing themselves comfortably in wrong cabins, and creating a most horrible confusion by having to turn out again; madly bent upon opening locked doors, and on forcing a passage into all kinds of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] heaving, wrestling, leaping, diving, jumping, pitching, throbbing, rolling, and rocking: and going through all these movements, sometimes by turns, and sometimes altogether: until one feels disposed to roar for mercy.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] circumspection. When poured out, he took it and looked at it with a sharp, complacent air, like a man who thinks he has done about the right thing, and hit the nail on the head, and proceeded to dispose of it in short and well-advised sips.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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My stay in Philadelphia was very short, but what I saw of its society, I greatly liked. Treating of its general characteristics, I should be disposed to say that it is more provincial than Boston or New York, and that there is afloat in the fair city, an assumption of taste and criticism, savouring rather of those genteel discussions upon the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] that means, a kind of magic circle, within whose limits no intruders dared to come, and which they never failed to refresh and re-refresh before a spot was dry. This being before breakfast, rather disposed me, I confess, to nausea; but looking attentively at one of the expectorators, I plainly saw that he was young in chewing, and felt inwardly uneasy, himself. A glow of delight came over me at this [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] pertinaciously, all offers from the various servants to relieve him of them. He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, disposed them under his chair, sat down, and looked rather apprehensively up at the worthy whose heels illustrated the end of the mantel-piece, who was spitting from right to left, with a courage and energy [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] On another occasion, when I dined out, and was sitting with two ladies and some gentlemen round a fire before dinner, one of the company fell short of the fireplace, six distinct times. I am disposed to think, however, that this was occasioned by his not aiming at that object; as there was a white marble hearth before the fender, which was more convenient, and may have suited his purpose better.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] soap, a comb and brush for the head, and nothing for the teeth. Everybody uses the comb and brush, except myself. Everybody stares to see me using my own; and two or three gentlemen are strongly disposed to banter me on my prejudices, but do n't. When I have made my toilet, I go upon the hurricane-deck, and set in for two hours of hard walking up and down. The sun is rising brilliantly; we are [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There is no doubt that the meal, at which the invitation was tendered to me which has occasioned this digression, was disposed of somewhat ravenously; and that the gentlemen thrust the broad-bladed knives and the two-pronged forks further down their throats than I ever saw the same weapons go before, except in the hands of [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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There was some relief in this boat, too, which there had not been in the other, for the captain (a blunt, good-natured fellow ) had his handsome wife with him, who was disposed to be lively and agreeable, as were a few other lady-passengers who had their seats about us at the same end of the table. But nothing could have made head against the depressing influence of the [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)