Dispense With

Definition: Dispense With

Dispense With

Verb

1. To give up as not strictly needed: he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey.

2. Do without; "We are dispensing with formalities".

3. Forgo; do or go without.

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Tips from 1870

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Synonyms: Dispense With

Disuse

Verb: not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear, abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard; (eject); dismiss, give warning.

Exemption

Exempt, release, acquit, discharge, quitclaim, remise, remit; free, set at liberty, let off, pass over, spare, excuse, dispense with, give dispensation, license; stretch a point; absolve; (forgive); exonerate; (exculpate); save the necessity.

Permission

Let off; absolve; (acquit); release, exonerate, dispense with.

Requirement

Verb: require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without, not be able to dispense with; prerequire.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

His mind dispensed with belief, yet his heart could not dispense with friendship.

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Civil Liberties

India

Like its predecessor, the TADA, the proposed bill would dispense with constitutional guarantees for due process, allowing for preventive detention. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "dispense with": not be able to dispense with ♦ To dispense with. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afskaf (abolish, abrogate, do away with, get, get rid of, remove), afruim (do away with, get, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Albanian

s'ia kam nevojën, heq qafe (close out, despatch, disembarrass, dispatch, dispose of, ditch, doff, dump, make away with oneself, put off), bëj pa (do without), bëj i panevojshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏زاد (add, augment, boost, compound, enhance, extend, get dearer, grow, heighten, increase, jump, provisions, push up, put up with smth., supplement, swell, victuals), ‏إستغنى (do without, give away, pass up). (various references)

Bulgarian 

освобождавам се от (clear off, eliminate, escape), минавам без (do without). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�除 (discard, get rid of). (various references)

Czech

vzdát se (abnegate, concede, forsake, give away, give in, give oneself up, give up, lay down, lie down, relinquish, renounce), obejít se bez (do without, spare). (various references)

Danish

fjerne (do away with, get rid of, remove), afskaffe (abolish, abrogate, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Dutch

wegdoen (dispose of, do away with, get rid of, remove, sell, vend), verwýderen (do away with, eliminate, get rid of, remove), uitmaken (accomodate, account for, constitute, decide, do away with, end, extinguish, finish, get rid of, make up, put out, remove, terminate), opdoeken (do away with, get rid of, remove), elimineren (do away with, eliminate, get rid of, remove), afschaffen (abolish, abrogate, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Faeroese

beina burtur (do away with, get rid of, put away, remove, store, throw away, turn away). (various references)

French

supprimer, se passer de, rendre superflu, ôter. (various references)

Frisian

ôftankje (discard, do away with, get rid of, remove), ôfskaffe (abolish, abrogate, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

German

wegbringen (abduce, abduct, bring away, bring off, divert, do away with, get away, get off, get rid of, lead away, remove), verzichten auf (disclaim, forego, forgo, set aside, spare, to dispense with, to forgo, yield up), fortschaffen (do away with, get rid of, remove, take away, to take away), entfernen (abort, clearance, detach, dislodge, do away with, excise, get rid of, oust, pick, remove, take off, take out, to dislodge, to eliminate, to remove), einsparen (cut down on, economize on, pare down, reduce, retrench, save on), beseitigen (clear away, dispose of, do away with, eliminate, eliminating, get rid of, hammer out, lay, lull, make away with, redress, remove, smooth out, to eliminate, to remove, unmade, unmake), abschaffen (abolish, disestablish, do away with, get rid of, remove, suppress, to abolish, to suppress). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω χωρίσ (do without, go without, spare). (various references)

Hebrew 

לותר על (concede, forego, part with, spare, waive). (various references)

Hungarian

nélkülöz vmit (to be void of sg, to dispense with sg), eltekint vmitől (to dispense with sg, to set aside). (various references)

Italian

bandire (advertise, advertize, ban, banish, dismiss, exile, outlaw, proclaim). (various references)

Pig Latin

ispenseday ithway

Portuguese

prescindir de. (various references)

Romanian

se dispensa de, nu avea nevoie de (go without), înlåtura (do away with, get rid of, remove), îndepårta (do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Russian 

обойтись без (do without). (various references)

Scottish

seachainn (avoid, shun). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izostaviti (dispense, leave out, omit). (various references)

Spanish

deshacerse de (dump, freeze out, get rid of, give away, lose, part with), prescindir de, prescindir (abstract, deatch, detach, go without, leave aside, leave out, prescind from, put aside, separate, sever, unfasten), abrogar (abolish, abrogate, disestablish, do away with, get rid of, remove, repeal), abolir (abate, aboil, abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Swedish

undvara (do without, go without). (various references)

Turkish

vazgeçmek (abandon, back down, back down from, back out, back out of, back track, backtrack, be off, beat a retreat, cease, cede, change one's mind, cry off, cut loose, declare off, desist, disclaim, do without, drop the reins, forbear, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, jack in, kick, leave, leave off, opt out, quit, recant, recede, relinquish, remit, renounce, resign, retract, sink, Stow, surrender, swerve, throw over, throw up, turn about, turn around, turn up, unlearn, waive, wangle, wangle out of), olmadan da yapabilmek, ayrilmak (do away with, get rid of, remove). (various references)

Ukrainian

обходитися без (do without). (various references)

Welsh

hepgor (spare, what may be dispensed with). (various references)

abicio. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: densities, destinies, pithiness, sideswipe, tepidness, twinships, whiteness, witnessed.

-4 letters: despites, destines, dewiness, dishiest, dispense, eisweins, insisted, newsiest, pinweeds, shindies, shiniest, shipside, sidespin, sidestep, sidewise, sienites, spiniest, steepish, stepwise, stipends, sweetish, tidiness, twinship, whiniest, whitened, wideness, windiest, wispiest.

-5 letters: deities, densest, despise, despite, destine, dewiest, dipnets, dissent, eiswein, endites, endwise, heinies, heisted, hessite, hipness.