All dispose synonyms

verb dispose

• adapt — If you adapt to a new situation or adapt yourself to it, you change your ideas or behaviour in order to deal with it successfully.
• predispose — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
• incline — to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
• tempt — to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
• set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• prompt — done, performed, delivered, etc., at once or without delay: a prompt reply.
• distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
• actuate — If a person is actuated by an emotion, that emotion makes them act in a certain way. If something actuates a device, the device starts working.
• rank — Otto [awt-oh] /ˈɔt oʊ/ (Show IPA), 1884–1939, Austrian psychoanalyst.
• organize — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
• bend — When you bend, you move the top part of your body downwards and forwards. Plants and trees also bend.
• determine — If a particular factor determines the nature of a thing or event, it causes it to be of a particular kind.
• array — An array of different things or people is a large number or wide range of them.
• regulate — to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc.: to regulate household expenses.
• group — any collection or assemblage of persons or things; cluster; aggregation: a group of protesters; a remarkable group of paintings.
• prepare — to put in proper condition or readiness: to prepare a patient for surgery.
• fix — to repair; mend.
• motivate — to provide with a motive, or a cause or reason to act; incite; impel.
• bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
• adjust — When you adjust to a new situation, you get used to it by changing your behaviour or your ideas.
• sway — to move or swing to and fro, as something fixed at one end or resting on a support.
• locate — to identify or discover the place or location of: to locate the bullet wound.
• shepherd — a male given name.
• move — to pass from one place or position to another.
• influence — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
• induce — to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
• tailor — a stroke of a bell indicating someone's death; knell.
• govern — to rule over by right of authority: to govern a nation.
• put — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
• promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
• condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
• arrange — If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
• systematize — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
• lead — to cover, line, weight, treat, or impregnate with lead or one of its compounds.
• range — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
• settle — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
• stand — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
• marshal — a military officer of the highest rank, as in the French and some other armies. Compare field marshal.
• position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
• place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
• set out — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• organise — to form as or into a whole consisting of interdependent or coordinated parts, especially for united action: to organize a committee.
• systematise — to arrange in or according to a system; reduce to a system; make systematic.
• persuade — to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging: We could not persuade him to wait.
• resolve — to come to a definite or earnest decision about; determine (to do something): I have resolved that I shall live to the full.
• decide — If you decide to do something, you choose to do it, usually after you have thought carefully about the other possibilities.
• rule — a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
• methodize — to reduce (something) to a method.
• ride herd on — a number of animals kept, feeding, or traveling together; drove; flock: a herd of cattle; a herd of sheep; a herd of zebras.
• call the tune — to be in control of the proceedings