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say it: di-SPENST
dispensed is an adjective meaning "distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions". It carries one recorded sense.
distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions
“medicines dispensed to the sick”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dispensed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.