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View synonyms for dish out

dish out

verb

  1. tr, adverb to distribute
  2. dish it out
    dish it out to inflict punishment

    he can't take it, but he can sure dish it out



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Virtual Kim swans in every so often to dish out advice like a buxom fairy godmother.

Baron Cohen can certainly dish out embarrassment (see Posh and Becks).

Then, too, asparagus is sometimes served on toast, which is another means of making a more nutritious dish out of this vegetable.

For lack of this in a simple form, he concocted a dish out of vegetables, fruit and oil, which proved to him a great benefit.

I set up my typewriter in a corner near a window and dug a gay cushion or two and a chafing-dish out of my trunk.

They will make a dish out of almost any of the herbs of the field, or of birds, beasts, or creeping things.

Know how to make up a dish out of what was left over from the meals of the day before.

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