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doled out

doled out is the simple past and past participle of dole out.

Meaning of dole out

Verb

dole out (third-person singular simple present doles out, present participle doling out, simple past and past participle doled out)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To distribute in apportioned amounts.
    • The McCains, by contrast, dole out such homespun wisdom as "in Arizona, the only way to get around the state is by small private plane" and understand that in this crazy modern world where the typical family owns eleven homes and spends hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on household staff...2008 July 15, Matthew Yglesias, “Obama's Elitism Problem, Continued”, in The Atlantic
    Synonyms:
    dish out, mete out

Questions about doled out

What is doled out the simple past and past participle of?
Doled out is the simple past and past participle of dole out.

Words near doled out in the dictionary

  1. dole queue
  2. dole queues
  3. dolebludger
  4. dolebludgers
  5. doled
  6. doled out
  7. doleful
  8. dolefuler
  9. dolefulest
  10. dolefull
  11. dolefuller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doled out (page history and authors); dole out (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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