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"ref": "1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber, published 2005, page 40",
"text": "The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razdavam",
"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "jakaa"
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "émettre"
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "fördela"
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"word": "förmedla"
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "utge"
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "utminutera"
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "dosera"
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "dağıtmak"
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"sense": "to issue, distribute, or give out",
"word": "tevzi etmek"
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"text": "to dispense justice"
},
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"ref": "1662, John Dryden, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde",
"text": "While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.",
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"To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct."
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"code": "fi",
"english": "justice",
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"sense": "to apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct",
"word": "jakaa"
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"word": "hallita"
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"sense": "to apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct",
"word": "szolgáltat"
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"_dis1": "4 94 1 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"english": "to administer last rites",
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"sense": "to apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct",
"word": "kiszolgáltat"
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"sense": "to apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct",
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"text": "The pharmacist dispensed my tablets."
},
{
"text": "An optician can dispense spectacles."
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"To supply or make up a medicine or prescription."
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"_dis1": "2 1 58 1 38",
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "doseren"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "antaa"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "annostella"
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"english": "to prescribe",
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "määrätä"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "doser"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "préparer"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "dispenser"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "dosieren"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "ausstellen"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "elkészít"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "skriva ut"
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"word": "ilaç hazırlamak"
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"word": "vapauttaa"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "entschuldigen"
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"sense": "to supply or make up a medicine or prescription",
"word": "felment"
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"word": "dispensar"
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"word": "korvata"
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"word": "hyvittää"
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"english": "to compensate",
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"word": "palkita"
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"ref": "1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce",
"text": "Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures.",
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"text": "1779–81, Samuel Johnson, \"Richard Savage\" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet\nHe appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself."
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