DISPENSING, participle present tense 1. Distributing; administering. 2. adjective That may dispense with; granting dispensation; that may grant license to omit what is required by law, or to do what the law forbids; as a dispensing power. DISPEOPLE, verb transitive [dis and people.] To depopulate; to empty of inhabitants, as by destruction, expulsion or other means.
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