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mete out

mete out verb: to distribute something in portions; to apportion or dole out.

Verb

mete out (third-person singular simple present metes out, present participle meting out, simple past and past participle meted out)

  1. (transitive) To distribute something in portions; to apportion or dole out.
    • He was also under scrutiny for the time line on which he meted out relationship milestones, which conveniently aligned with the show’s narrative progression.2022 June 2, Anna Peele, “Inside ‘Love Island,’ From the Tragic Suicide Deaths to New Mental Health Protocols”, in Vanity Fair

mete out meaning in Sanskrit and Persian

mete out in Sanskrit

to mete out, measure
निर्मा nirmā

mete out in Persian

to distribute something in portions
سهم دادن sahm dâdan, بخش کردن baxš kardan

Forms of mete out

third-person singular presentmetes out
present participlemeting out
past participlemeted out
pastmeted out

Questions about mete out

What does mete out mean?
Mete out means to distribute something in portions; to apportion or dole out.
What is mete out in Sanskrit?
Mete out in Sanskrit is निर्मा (nirmā). See Mete out meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is mete out?
Mete out is a verb.
What is the past tense of mete out?
The past tense of mete out is meted out.

Words near mete out in the dictionary

  1. metchnikowin
  2. metcon
  3. metconazole
  4. metcons
  5. mete
  6. mete out
  7. mete-wand
  8. mete-wands
  9. metecorn
  10. meted
  11. meted out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mete out (page history and authors); निर्मा (Sanskrit) (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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