Dispense
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:11 ptsWWF:13 pts8 letters
Definition of Dispense
Verb
- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
"to dispense justice"
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
"The pharmacist dispensed my tablets."
- To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
"Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king."
- To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
Noun
- Cost, expenditure.
- The act of dispensing, dispensation.
Anagrams of Dispense
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