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dished

/dɪʃt/

dished is the simple past and past participle of dish.

Adjective

dished

  1. Shaped like a dish; concave.
    • Bicycle and cart wheels are often dished.
  2. (archaic, colloquial) Defeated, exhausted.
    • Getting tired, however, of this idol-worship, Lord Arthur gives out that he is ‘dished;’ and his worshippers depart from him as fast as they came.1835 July, “[Review of Plantagenet]”, in The Westminster Review, volume 23, number 45, page 105
    • I fear I am clean dished. The Heads of Houses are at this very moment concocting a manifesto against me.1841 March 12, John Henry Newman, “[Letter to Harriet Mozley]”, in Anne Mozley, editor, Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church […], volume 2, published...

Meaning of dish

Verb

dish (third-person singular simple present dishes, present participle dishing, simple past and past participle dished)

  1. (transitive) To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
  2. (informal, slang) To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
  3. (slang) To insult, speak ill of.
    • In the car with you I heard Joe's voice ― complaining about how invisible black people still are to whites; praising artists we admire; dishing someone's bad taste; planning future adventures; […]1989 February 5, Jewelle Gomez, “Journey”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 9
  4. (transitive) To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish.
    • to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
  5. (archaic, slang, transitive) To frustrate; to beat; to outwit or defeat.
    • Have the Tories "dished the Whigs"?1867, The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 460

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Questions about dished

What does dished mean?
Dished means shaped like a dish; concave.
What is dished the simple past and past participle of?
Dished is the simple past and past participle of dish.
What part of speech is dished?
Dished is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dished?
Dished is pronounced /dɪʃt/.

Words near dished in the dictionary

  1. disheartenment
  2. disheartenments
  3. disheartens
  4. dishearting
  5. dishearts
  6. dished
  7. dished off
  8. dished out
  9. dished the dirt
  10. dished up
  11. disheir

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