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Adjective: dispensed  `dis'penst
  1. Distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions
    "medicines dispensed to the sick"
Verb: dispense  di'spen(t)s
  1. Give or provide in small portions
    "the machine dispenses soft drinks"
    - distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out, mete, dole
     
  2. Grant a dispensation; grant an exemption
    "I was dispensed from this terrible task"
     
  3. Give or apply (medications)
    - administer

See also: dispensary, dispensation, dispense with, dispenser, distributed

Type of: care for, exempt, free, give, relieve, treat

Encyclopedia: Dispensed