{
    "term": "dispose",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "dispose",
            "heSheIt": "disposes"
        },
        "pastSimple": "disposed",
        "pastParticiple": "disposed",
        "ingForm": "disposing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to arrange things or people in a particular way or position",
            "sensetop": "dispose something/somebody + adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The visitors disposed themselves in a circle round the statue."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make somebody want to behave in a particular way",
            "sensetop": "dispose somebody to/toward(s) somethingdispose somebody to do something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a drug that disposes the patient towards sleep",
                    "contextForm": "dispose somebody to/toward(s) something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a drug that disposes the patient to sleep",
                    "contextForm": "dispose somebody to do something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊz/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/dispose__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪz/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/disposes__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzd/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/disposed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/disposing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊz/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/dispose__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪz/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/disposes__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzd/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/disposed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈspəʊzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/dispose/disposing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French disposer, from Latin disponere ‘arrange’, influenced by dispositus ‘arranged’ and Old French poser ‘to place’."
}