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DISPOSE OF
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deal with or settle
Example:
He disposed of these cases quickly
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "dispose of" is one way to...):
care; deal; handle; manage (be in charge of, act on, or dispose of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
Cold exposure also interfered with the human stem cell-derived neurons’ ability to dispose of the toxic oxidized proteins via its protein quality control system.
(Researchers develop “hibernation in a dish” to study how animals adapt to the cold, National Institutes of Health)
Before he quitted Redriff, he left the custody of the following papers in my hands, with the liberty to dispose of them as I should think fit.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His wildest dreams had not exceeded a hundred per cent. profit; he made a thousand per cent. And like a true Indian, he settled down to trade carefully and slowly, even if it took all summer and the rest of the winter to dispose of his goods.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
My dear sister, said Mary, if you can persuade him into anything of the sort, it will be a fresh matter of delight to me to find myself allied to anybody so clever, and I shall only regret that you have not half a dozen daughters to dispose of.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We must bear in mind that Oberstein has gone to the Continent to dispose of his booty, but not with any idea of flight; for he had no reason to fear a warrant, and the idea of an amateur domiciliary visit would certainly never occur to him.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I began to dispose of the more portable articles of property that very evening; and went out on a similar expedition almost every morning, before I went to Murdstone and Grinby's.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He imagined, and calmly could he imagine it, that her extravagance, and consequent distress, had obliged her to dispose of it for some immediate relief.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I questioned Mrs. Straker as to the dress without her knowing it, and having satisfied myself that it had never reached her, I made a note of the milliner’s address, and felt that by calling there with Straker’s photograph I could easily dispose of the mythical Derbyshire.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“There are three methods, by which a man may rise to be chief minister. The first is, by knowing how, with prudence, to dispose of a wife, a daughter, or a sister; the second, by betraying or undermining his predecessor; and the third is, by a furious zeal, in public assemblies, against the corruptions of the court. But a wise prince would rather choose to employ those who practise the last of these methods; because such zealots prove always the most obsequious and subservient to the will and passions of their master. That these ministers, having all employments at their disposal, preserve themselves in power, by bribing the majority of a senate or great council; and at last, by an expedient, called an act of indemnity” (whereof I described the nature to him), “they secure themselves from after-reckonings, and retire from the public laden with the spoils of the nation.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I'm the only one here who likes sweet things, and it will mold before I can dispose of it, answered Amy, thinking with a sigh of the generous store she had laid in for such an end as this.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
