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{
"term": "dispose",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "dispose",
"heSheIt": "disposes"
},
"pastSimple": "disposed",
"pastParticiple": "disposed",
"ingForm": "disposing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to arrange things or people in a particular way or position",
"sensetop": "dispose something/somebody + adv./prep.",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The visitors disposed themselves in a circle round the statue."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to make somebody want to behave in a particular way",
"sensetop": "dispose somebody to/toward(s) somethingdispose somebody to do something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a drug that disposes the patient towards sleep",
"contextForm": "dispose somebody to/toward(s) something"
},
{
"text": "a drug that disposes the patient to sleep",
"contextForm": "dispose somebody to do something"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊz/",
"audio": "di/dispose/dispose__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪz/",
"audio": "di/dispose/disposes__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzd/",
"audio": "di/dispose/disposed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/dispose/disposing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊz/",
"audio": "di/dispose/dispose__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪz/",
"audio": "di/dispose/disposes__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzd/",
"audio": "di/dispose/disposed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/dispose/disposing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French disposer, from Latin disponere ‘arrange’, influenced by dispositus ‘arranged’ and Old French poser ‘to place’."
}