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dispensed with

dispensed with is the simple past and past participle of dispense with.

Meaning of dispense with

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To eliminate; to dispose of.
    • I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.
  2. (transitive) To do without.
    • The people hereabouts, sir, would seem to dispense with street illumination, and it is very dark tonight.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

Questions about dispensed with

What is dispensed with the simple past and past participle of?
Dispensed with is the simple past and past participle of dispense with.

Words near dispensed with in the dictionary

  1. dispensatresses
  2. dispensatrix
  3. dispense
  4. dispense with
  5. dispensed
  6. dispensed with
  7. dispensement
  8. dispensements
  9. dispenser
  10. dispensers
  11. dispenses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispensed with (page history and authors); dispense with (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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