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dished up

dished up is the simple past and past participle of dish up.

Meaning of dish up

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To serve (cooked food); to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc. and put in dishes to be served at table.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To produce for an audience.
    • The writers are dishing up more of the same with this bland suburban sitcom.
  3. (dated, transitive) To beat up.

Questions about dished up

What is dished up the simple past and past participle of?
Dished up is the simple past and past participle of dish up.

Words near dished up in the dictionary

  1. dishearts
  2. dished
  3. dished off
  4. dished out
  5. dished the dirt
  6. dished up
  7. disheir
  8. disheired
  9. disheiring
  10. disheirs
  11. Dishel

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dished up (page history and authors); dish up (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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