dispose

verb

• 1 [no object] (dispose of) get rid of by throwing away or giving or selling to someone else:whose responsibility is it to dispose of scrap materials? people now have substantial assets to dispose of after their death
• informal kill; destroy:her lover came up with hundreds of schemes for disposing of her husband
• overcome (a rival or threat):team members were buoyant after they disposed of the champions
• informal consume (food or drink) quickly or enthusiastically:she watched him dispose of a large slice of cheese

• 2 [with object] arrange in a particular position:the chief disposed his attendants in a circle
• bring (someone) into a particular frame of mind:prolactin is released, disposing you toward sleep cruelty that brutalizes young minds and disposes them to violence
• [no object] literary determine the course of events:the city proposed, but the unions disposed

  [from the proverb 'Man proposes, (but) God disposes', translating Latin Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit (Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christ i. xix)]