dispense

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[edit] English

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to dispense

Third person singular
dispenses

Simple past
dispensed

Past participle
dispensed

Present participle
dispensing

to dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)

  1. To issue, distribute, or put out.
    The vending machine dispensed the coffee before the cup.
  2. To eliminate or do without–used intransitively with with.
    I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.

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[edit] French

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dispense

  1. First-person singular present indicative of dispenser.
  2. Third-person singular present indicative of dispenser.
  3. First-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser.
  4. Third-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser.
  5. Second-person singular imperative of dispenser.

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[edit] Italian

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dispense f.

  1. Plural form of dispensa.

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dispense

  1. Third-person singular past historic of dispegnere.

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