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dealt a hand

dealt a hand is the simple past and past participle of deal a hand.

Meaning of deal a hand

Verb

deal a hand (third-person singular simple present deals a hand, present participle dealing a hand, simple past and past participle dealt a hand)

  1. To distribute a hand of cards at random to a player.
  2. (idiomatic) To assign circumstances in life to someone.
    • Yeah, this Caucasian country was dealt a very poor geographic hand.

Questions about dealt a hand

What is dealt a hand the simple past and past participle of?
Dealt a hand is the simple past and past participle of deal a hand.

Words near dealt a hand in the dictionary

  1. deals with
  2. deals with the devil
  3. dealt
  4. dealt a bad hand
  5. dealt a good hand
  6. dealt a hand
  7. dealt in
  8. dealt it out
  9. dealt out
  10. dealt to
  11. dealt with

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dealt a hand (page history and authors); deal a hand (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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