dispense with's Usage Examples:

cannot dispense with primitive notions, under pain of infinite regress (per the regress problem).

bisexual if she is not exclusively sexually attracted to women, or dispense with sexual identification altogether.

The Formula One rules for 1966 were to dispense with the old 1.

Formal theories cannot dispense with primitive notions, under pain of infinite regress (per the regress problem).

6), which dispense with the circumstantiality of the original and retain little more than the reasoning.

metaphysical entities, arguing that realistic legal analysis should dispense with them.

Some modern plugholes dispense with the need for a separate plug, having instead a built-in.

Ebert concludes:In his review in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle called the film a rare thing—a well-acted character study of a hardworking woman, by a screenwriter (Gerald DiPego) and a director with enough integrity to dispense with the usual Hollywood distractions.

much lighter than that of their parent outfit, Cardiacs; the songs dispense with the use of loud guitars and drums, in favour of differing vocal rhythms.

Although a small number of steel narrowboats dispense with the need for a rear steering deck entirely, by imitating some river.

But we may well, if the mood seems to us to demand it, dispense with all the others.

contemporary variant of nominalism, which argues that philosophy, logic, and mathematics should dispense with set theory.

The umpires can decide to dispense with the bails completely (for example, where strong gusts of wind would.

Synonyms:

give, part with, give up, spare,

Antonyms:

take, engage, clasp, enlist, hold,