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Adjective dispensed has 1 sense
- dispensed - distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions; "medicines dispensed to the sick"
Antonym: concentrated (indirect, via distributed)
Verb dispense has 3 senses
- distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out - administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"
--1 is one way to give
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- dispense - grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; "I was dispensed from this terrible task"
--2 is one way to exempt, relieve, free
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- administer, dispense - give or apply (medications)
--3 is one way to treat, care for
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
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