1. Distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions
   "medicines dispensed to the sick"

1. Give or provide in small portions
   "the machine dispenses soft drinks";
   - distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out, mete, dole
    
2. (medicine) give or apply (medications)
   "The nurse dispensed the prescribed antibiotics";
   - administer
    
3. Grant a dispensation; grant an exemption
   "I was dispensed from this terrible task"

See also: distributed, waive

Type of: care for, exempt, free, give, relieve, treat

Encyclopedia: Dispensed