Synonyms of the word dispense


DISPENSEADMINISTER - ALLOT - DEAL - DISTRIBUTE - EXEMPT - FREE - GIVE - LOT - RELIEVE - TREAT

dispense

  • v. To issue, distribute, or put out.
  • v. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
  • v. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
  • v. To eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with.
  • v. (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
  • v. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
  • n. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  • n. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.

administer

  • v. (transitive) To cause to take, either by openly offering or through deceit.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion out.
  • v. (transitive) To manage or supervise the conduct, performance or execution of; to govern or regulate the…
  • v. (intransitive) To minister (to).
  • v. (law) To settle, as the estate of one who dies without a will, or whose will fails of an executor.
  • v. To tender, as an oath.
  • v. (medicine) To give a drug to a patient, be it orally or by any other means.

allot

  • v. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
  • v. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

deal

  • n. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share.
  • n. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
  • v. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
  • v. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
  • v. To distribute cards to the players in a game.
  • v. (baseball) To pitch.
  • v. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
  • v. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
  • v. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
  • v. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
  • v. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
  • n. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing.
  • n. The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
  • n. A particular instance of buying or selling, a transaction.
  • n. Specifically, a transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
  • n. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.
  • n. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
  • n. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
  • n. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
  • n. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
  • n. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity…
  • adj. Made of deal.

distribute

  • v. (transitive) To divide into portions and dispense.
  • v. (transitive) To supply to retail outlets.
  • v. (transitive) To deliver or pass out.
  • v. (transitive) To scatter or spread.
  • v. (transitive) To apportion (more or less evenly).
  • v. (transitive) To classify or separate into categories.
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) To be distributive.
  • v. (printing) To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases.
  • v. (printing) To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table.
  • v. (logic) To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise.

exempt

  • adj. Free from a duty or obligation.
  • adj. (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
  • adj. (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
  • adj. (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
  • n. One who has been released from something.
  • n. (historical) A type of French police officer.
  • n. (Britain) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
  • v. (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.

free

  • adj. (social) Unconstrained.
  • adj. Obtainable without any payment.
  • adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
  • adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
  • adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
  • adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
  • adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
  • adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
  • adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
  • adv. Without needing to pay.
  • adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
  • v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
  • n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
  • n. free transfer.
  • n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…

give

  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
  • v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
  • v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
  • v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
  • v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
  • v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
  • v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
  • v. To be going on, to be occurring.
  • n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

lot

  • n. A large quantity or number; a great deal.
  • n. A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
  • n. One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
  • n. (informal) A number of people taken collectively.
  • n. A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
  • n. That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
  • n. Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without…
  • n. The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
  • n. A prize in a lottery.
  • n. Allotment; lottery.
  • n. (definite, the lot) All members of a set; everything.
  • n. An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32…
  • v. (transitive, dated) To allot; to sort; to apportion.
  • v. (US, informal, dated) To count or reckon (on or upon).

relieve

  • v. To ease (a person, person's thoughts etc.) from mental distress; to stop (someone) feeling anxious or…
  • v. To ease (someone, a part of the body etc.) or give relief from physical pain or discomfort.
  • v. To alleviate (pain, distress, mental discomfort etc.).
  • v. To provide comfort or assistance to (someone in need, especially in poverty).
  • v. (obsolete) To lift up; to raise again.
  • v. (now rare) To raise (someone) out of danger or from (a specified difficulty etc.).
  • v. (law) To free (someone) from debt or legal obligations; to give legal relief to.
  • v. To bring military help to (a besieged town); to lift the siege on.
  • v. To release (someone) from or of a difficulty, unwanted task, responsibility etc.
  • v. (military, job) To free (someone) from their post, task etc. by taking their place.
  • v. (now rare) To make (something) stand out; to make prominent, bring into relief.
  • v. (reflexive) To go to the toilet; to defecate or urinate.

treat

  • v. (intransitive) To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with).
  • v. (intransitive) To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion.
  • v. (transitive) To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To entreat or beseech (someone).
  • v. (transitive) To handle, deal with or behave towards in a specific way.
  • v. (transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to;…
  • v. (transitive) To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to.
  • v. (transitive) To subject to a chemical or other action; to act upon with a specific scientific result in…
  • v. To provide something special and pleasant.
  • n. An entertainment, outing, or other indulgence provided by someone for the enjoyment of others.
  • n. An unexpected gift, event etc., which provides great pleasure.
  • n. (obsolete) A parley or discussion of terms; a negotiation.
  • n. (obsolete) An entreaty.

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