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dispurse

dispurse is the obsolete form of disburse.

Meaning of disburse

Verb

disburse (third-person singular simple present disburses, present participle disbursing, simple past and past participle disbursed)

  1. To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
    • The consequent traffic is so grave that, last year, councils in England and Wales demanded that the government disburse £1bn a year to them so they could repair roads and tackle congestion.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian

Forms of dispurse

third-person singular presentdispurses
present participledispursing
past participledispursed
pastdispursed

Origin of dispurse

From dis- + purse.

Questions about dispurse

What is dispurse the obsolete form of?
Dispurse is the obsolete form of disburse.

Words near dispurse in the dictionary

  1. Dispur
  2. dispurpose
  3. dispurposed
  4. dispurposes
  5. dispurposing
  6. dispurse
  7. dispursed
  8. dispursement
  9. dispurses
  10. dispursing
  11. dispurvey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dispurse (page history and authors); disburse (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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