Dictionary Thesaurus Word Dynamo Quotes Reference Translator Spanish

dealt

[delt]

Example Sentences Origin

Delta.com - Official Site www.delta.com Book Direct And Save On Domestic & International Flights At Delta.com

DeWALT Factory Outlet www.factoryauthorizedoutlet.com Let Us Earn Your Business. Free Shipping. Lowest Prices!

Amazing Daily Deals www.livingsocial.com/Valley Save 50-70% At Valley Spas, Restaurants, Shops & More. Sign Up!

Ads

verb

simple past tense and past participle of deal¹.

Dealt Definition Dictionary.com Find Definitions For Any Word.Get Your Free Dictionary.com Toolbar.

Related forms

un·dealt, adjective

:10

:09

:08

:07

:06

:05

:04

:03

:02

:01

Dealt is one of our favorite verbs.

So is hornswoggle. Does it mean:

to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.

to spend time idly; loaf.

LEARN MORE FUN, UNUSUAL VERBS WITH WORD DYNAMO...

Example Sentences

Both of the questions that he refused to answer dealt with other persons who had attended meetings with him.

Few universities have dealt with the sustainability of their sports programs or have long-term plans to do so, a report says.

Changes to the way that regulators dealt with leverage in the market meant their position was unsustainable, though.

EXPAND

Both of the questions that he refused to answer dealt with other persons who had attended meetings with him.

Few universities have dealt with the sustainability of their sports programs or have long-term plans to do so, a report says.

Changes to the way that regulators dealt with leverage in the market meant their position was unsustainable, though.

Scientists have known that nutritionally deprived bacteria are better able to resist the chemical blows dealt by antibiotics.

The stock market crash dealt a hard blow to his family's fortune, and his two other brothers took their lives soon after.

With those various confusions dealt with, let's take a peek inside.

All dealt imaginatively with bodies in simple motion.

Few universities have dealt with the sustainability of their sports programs or have long-term plans to do so, says a new report.

They thus depended far more on the players' betting decisions than on the cards dealt.

The sneaky dogs will always be there and will have to be dealt with by the rule of law, ours if their's proves incapable.

The original concept dealt with a chase adventure through a ruined landscape.

With every hand dealt in a prison courtyard, players see a kaleidoscope of names and pictures of victims of unsolved crimes.

We dealt with him by systematically tearing his comments apart using logic and reasoning.

If it all works, picking tumours up at a stage when they can be dealt with should become a lot easier.

The first part of the game dealt with exploring and learning by robots.

The second dealt with specific methods for treating various wounds and fractures of the skull and head.

When he published many of the finest scholars and writers, he dealt with them as an equal.

Anyone who poses the slightest political threat to the regime is dealt with ruthlessly.

Whatever the loss is, it will have to be dealt with in a fluid cooler.

One problem the team dealt with was finding the right glue to attach the piezoelectric patch to the blade.

Naftali's scholarly work had often dealt with the presidency, so he knew that voters do not choose among saints.

Actually there is no hint anywhere in the article that this problem could be dealt with.

Nuclear waste can be dealt with and is dealt with in other countries through reprocessing technologies that already exist.

Recently, my revelations have dealt with international relations.

The police also finds it difficult to intervene because this is seen as something that should be dealt with in the university.

There are plenty of real problems in this country that need to be dealt with.

Having dealt with ethanol for many years one should not discount the flammability aspect either.

There have also been reports that some of the brokers also dealt in liver and bone marrow.

The latter should be dealt with long before it gets to the defense.

Both, it was thought, could have been dealt with by negotiation.

Maybe then scientific people could stop sneering, thinking that the metaphysical aspects had been dealt with.

Our last post dealt with the mysterious conservation of seasonally-mediated cycles across species.

Colleges have dealt with that quandary in various ways.

Complex problems must be dealt with comprehensively, in their full economic, social and political dimension.

Here all men are on a level, and impartially fate has dealt to this great genius as to us all life's share of human sorrow.

Many of the talks dealt with innovative uses of various isotopes, a lot of the details of which were beyond my expertise.

Many other problems of data collection also arose that were not dealt with in a precise way.

Australia is also set for a weighty crop, having successfully dealt with a threatened plague of locusts.

Other countries and regions have dealt with the device issue by allowing companies to compile their own safety and efficacy data.

As noted, this is not a novel situation and has been dealt with by other courts.

Issues that are not dealt with in this way can become irritants in the relationship between the president and the board.

He dealt only in facts, he said, elicited from witnesses whom he interviewed repeatedly to be sure they were not crazy.

But the mercury dealt a surprise, splitting instead into ruthenium-100 and krypton-80.

On both grounds, he was keen to get you to back off, so the issue could be dealt with less contentiously.

The huge cost of pension schemes is being dealt with in the private sector.

Until those issues are dealt with, fossil fuel requirements will still be with us.

Such offenses are common and can usually be dealt with quietly between the faculty member and his or her chair.

To get the system working again, losses must be recognised and dealt with.

We plan for adaptation then any natural or human caused problem can be dealt with.

Danford, who has dealt with the company for two decades.

Charges were dropped because the crematory dealt only with funeral homes, not the public.

They had never dealt with a private funding agency before.

The conference also dealt with challenges facing the raft of new indigenous universities across the region.

Both of these are real worries, but they could be dealt with in the negotiations.

Flavor chemists make regular use of chemicals that people's bodies have never dealt with before.

It is a problem that needs to be dealt with in the strongest possible way.

However, their brains dealt with the stress imposed by the experimenters in different ways.

And it comes about from the fact that time is dealt with a little bit differently than.

Much of it will be dealt with through the slow and painful process of default and foreclosure.

Wildlife has dealt with environmental changes for millions of years and will certainly deal with this one as well.

The tiny few that actually cause damage can be dealt with under the justice system.

Small wonder environment or anything else isn't dealt with.

Until all of the above can be dealt with, the region will remain poor.

Ancient religions often dealt with the powers that be but there was also a strong theme concerning truth and justice.

That's modest, and to the extent that there are trade-exposed industries, that can be dealt with.

But a threat that strikes at a fundamental of the model must either be dealt with or the model discarded.

Many people suffer mental trauma for years after the infestation has been dealt with.

Can be dealt with, but it isn't the panacea people think.

He knew this was one of the big problems that was going to consistently have to be dealt with.

Later themes dealt with the tragedies of war and longing for peace.

The lecturer before me dealt with the ethics of the conservation movement.

These animals have barely rebounded from the brush with extinction dealt by whaling.

Many people have never taken a biology course that dealt with evolution nor read a book in which the theory was lucidly explained.

It also dealt a devastating blow to scientists eager to conduct research in the weightlessness of space.

He was polite and dealt with the bull until it got too ridiculous.

COLLAPSE

Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used without object)

to occupy oneself or itself (usually followed by with or in): Botany deals with the study of plants. He deals in generalities.

to take action with respect to a thing or person (followed by with): Law courts must deal with lawbreakers.

to conduct oneself toward persons: He deals fairly.

to be able to handle competently or successfully; cope (followed by with): I can't deal with your personal problems.

to trade or do business (followed by with or in): to deal with a firm; to deal in used cars.

EXPAND

to distribute, especially the cards in a game (often followed by out): to deal out five hands of six cards each; your turn to deal.

Slang. to buy and sell drugs illegally.

Archaic. to have dealings or commerce, often in a secret or underhand manner (often followed by with): to deal with the Devil.

COLLAPSE

verb (used with object)

to give to one as a share; apportion: Deal me in.

10.

to distribute among a number of recipients, as the cards required in a game: Deal five cards to each player.

11.

Cards. to give a player (a specific card) in dealing: You dealt yourself four aces.

12.

to deliver; administer: to deal a blow.

13.

Slang. to buy and sell (drugs) illegally.

EXPAND

14.

Slang. to trade (an athlete) to another team.

COLLAPSE

noun

15.

a business transaction: They closed the deal after a week of negotiating.

16.

a bargain or arrangement for mutual advantage: the best deal in town.

17.

a secret or underhand agreement or bargain: His supporters worked a number of deals to help his campaign.

18.

Informal. treatment received in dealing with another: He got a raw deal.

19.

an indefinite but large quantity, amount, extent, or degree (usually preceded by good or great): a good deal of work; a great deal of money.

EXPAND

20.

Cards.

the distribution of cards to the players in a game.

the set of cards in one's hand.

the turn of a player to deal.

the period of time during which a deal is played.

21.

an act of dealing or distributing.

22.

(initial capital letter) an economic and social policy pursued by a political administration: the Fair Deal; the New Deal.

23.

Obsolete. portion; share.

COLLAPSE

Verb phrase

24.

deal off,

Poker. to deal the final hand of a game.

Slang. to get rid of or trade (something or someone) in a transaction.

Idioms

25.

cut a deal, Informal. to make an agreement, especially a business agreement: Networks have cut a deal with foreign stations for an international hookup.

26.

deal someone in, Slang. to include: He was making a lot of dough in the construction business so I got him to deal me in.

Origin:
before 900; (v.) Middle English delen, Old English dǣlan (cognate with German teilen), derivative of dǣl part (cognate with German Teil); (noun) in part derivative of the v.; (in defs. 19 and 23) Middle English deel, del(e), Old English dǣl

Synonyms
3. act, behave. 5. traffic. 10. allot, assign, dole; mete, dispense. 16. pact, contract.

Link To dealt

Collins

World English Dictionary

dealt (dɛlt)

—vb
	the past tense and past participle of deal

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source

Etymonline

Word Origin & History

deal

"plank or board of pine," c.1400, from Low Ger. (cf. M.L.G. dele), from P.Gmc. *theljon. An O.E. derivative was þelu "hewn wood, board, flooring."

Word Dynamo By Dictionary.com

Searching for dealt?
How many words do you actually know?

FIND OUT

auction pinochle baseball blackjack block card counter dealing box

Matching Quote

"Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins."

-Erma Bombeck

Partners:Word Bloglines Citysearch The Daily Beast Ask Answers Ask Kids Life123 Sendori Thesaurus

About Privacy Policy Terms of Use API Careers Advertise with Us Contact Us Help