The word "dispose" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of getting rid of something, or the act of arranging something in a particular way. Example sentence: We disposed of the old furniture and replaced it with some new pieces.
Whoever fired at her hadn't been able to track her down with dogs and dispose of the tag because the shot had not immediately been fatal: Betty had flapped on for several miles before collapsing on the ground.
The future of UK government hopes to use local landfill sites to dispose of huge quantities of low-level nuclear waste will come under scrutiny today with the opening of a planning inquiry into the first such case.
But the need to dispose of the mounting number of corpses cheated some of the chance for closure.
The Armenians were branded as an enemy within by the Ottoman government, which used the cover of the first world war to systematically dispose of more than 1 million people, forcing great columns of humanity to march off into the Syrian desert to die of heat, starvation and disease.
The picnic began early in the morning, and the long procession of children was led to the as-yet-unopened municipality office to dispose of their loads.
It took six years to accumulate that, and it may take as long to dispose of it.
Today I could undress, undo, wipe, dispose, dry, fasten, re-dress, swaddle and cuddle in a single fluid motion, like a master teppanyaki chef.
In Dancing in the Dark, the latest to be translated, he documents his prolonged and calamitous attempts to dispose of his virginity during his late teenage years, a struggle sorely undermined by a chronic condition of premature ejaculation.
Brian McAvera Downpatrick, County Down Not content to heap singularly harsh criticism on the work of the departing director of Tate Britain, Penelope Curtis, Jonathan Jones goes so far as to suggest that the gallery should close down and dispose of its collections.
Augean said that the waste it wanted to dispose of was mostly soil and rubble from ancillary buildings on decommissioned nuclear sites, plus waste from other sources such as hospitals and university research laboratories.
I flinch at the words "throw out" which suggest Sam is some bag of rubbish I want to dispose of.
