Definition of "dispenses" [dispenses]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dispense. (verb)

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• ""Like a story by Jorge Luis Borges, The Fountain dispenses with everyday assumptions about time, space and causality and tries to replace the prose of narrative cinema with a poetic language of rhyming images and visual metaphors," writes AO Scott in the New York Times."
• "-- "Finally, the author by this most admirable and much signifying title dispenses with all necessity of preface."
• "Kody, 42, looks and sounds like a totally "awesome" surfer dude, who uses the word "awesome" a lot, and he dispenses hugs so freely that I would get a hug if I were in his vicinity ... even after writing this."