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dishes out

VERB

distribute

Synonyms

WEAK

allocate deliver dispense dole out fork over furnish give out hand hand out hand over inflict ladle mete out present produce scoop serve serve up spoon supply transfer turn over

Antonyms

WEAK

take

Example Sentences

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Travel is great, and I love patronizing restaurants opened by immigrant chefs who send enticing smells and savory dishes out of their kitchens.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Daow Coombes owns a food truck which usually dishes out 200 hot Thai meals to students every day.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

The latter dishes out some of the funniest one-liners when the writers poke fun at his extreme loneliness working in isolation and the imaginary friends he’s built to cope.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024

We pulled the clean, hot dishes out of the machine and stacked them to be used again.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2024

Bugs said, “Dang, girl, you act like this is the first cardboard jungle I’ve been in, I know how you do dishes out here.”

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis