Past tense of dish
regular verb
The past tense of dish is dished. The past participle is also dished.
Forms of dish
| Base form (V1) | dish /dɪʃ/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | dished /dɪʃt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | dished /dɪʃt/ |
| Present participle | dishing /ˈdɪʃɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | dishes /ˈdɪʃɪz/ |
Dished in a sentence
- Bicycle and cart wheels are often dished.From the entry dished
- A dished or upturned muzzle is considered a fault in the Redbone Coonhound.2013, Edward M. Gilbert Jr, Patricia H. Gilbert, Encyclopedia of K9 Terminology. From the entry Brittany
- Most of the advice dished out is empty calories and often presented as the gospel truth.2008, Roland R. Manarin, “You and Money”, in Manarin on Money: A Real World Guide to Building and Maintaining Wealth, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry gospel truth
- I dished out bags to fiends and snatched their money efficiently.2007, Blaine Martin, Hustle Hard: For All Debts, Public and Private, New York, N.Y.: Augustus Publishing, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry crillz
- “Buckley” should know to be more skeptical about what’s dished out to him by popular culture.1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random…. From the entry naïveté
Meaning of dish
- noun A vessel such as a plate for holding or serving food, often flat with a depressed region in the middle.
- noun The contents of such a vessel.
- noun A specific type of prepared food.
Questions about the past tense of dish
- What is the past tense of dish?
- The past tense of dish is dished.
- What is the past participle of dish?
- The past participle of dish is dished.
- Is dish a regular or irregular verb?
- Dish is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dish (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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