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dispurposed

dispurposed is the simple past and past participle of dispurpose.

Meaning of dispurpose

Verb

dispurpose (third-person singular simple present dispurposes, present participle dispurposing, simple past and past participle dispurposed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To dissuade; to frustrate.
    • So shee, but in a contrary manner, seeing her former plots dispurposed, sends me to an old Witch called Acrasia, to help to wreake her spight upon the Senses […]1607, Thomas Tomkins, Lingua

Questions about dispurposed

What is dispurposed the simple past and past participle of?
Dispurposed is the simple past and past participle of dispurpose.

Words near dispurposed in the dictionary

  1. dispunges
  2. dispunging
  3. dispunishable
  4. Dispur
  5. dispurpose
  6. dispurposed
  7. dispurposes
  8. dispurposing
  9. dispurse
  10. dispursed
  11. dispursement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispurposed (page history and authors); dispurpose (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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