Dispose vs Alienate - What's the difference?
dispose | alienate |
To eliminate or to get rid of something.
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To distribute and put in place.
*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , act 4, scene III
*:Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , chapter 6
*:Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
*1934 , (Rex Stout), edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 47:
*:I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in.
To deal out; to assign to a use.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
To incline.
: (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
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*:At twilight in the summeron the floor.
(lb) To bargain; to make terms.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:She had disposed with Caesar.
(lb) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:the knightly forms of combat to dispose
Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from .
To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to wean.
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* (rfdate) (Isaac Taylor):
In obsolete terms the difference between dispose and alienate
is that dispose is to regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine while alienate is a stranger; an alien.As verbs the difference between dispose and alienate
is that dispose is to eliminate or to get rid of something while alienate is to convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.As an adjective alienate is
estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; with from.As a noun alienate is
a stranger; an alien.dispose
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(wikipedia dispose)Verb
(dispos)Synonyms
* incline * discardAntonyms
* indispose * disinclineDerived terms
* disposition * disposal * dispose ofalienate
English
Adjective
(-)- O alienate from God''. (John Milton). ''Paradise Lost line 4643.
Verb
(alienat)- The errors which alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart.
- The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present.