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

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

At Spring, she fashioned discount dishes out of such items as potato skins that otherwise would go to waste.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

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

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2024

Indeed, Jokic keeps doing Jokic-type things: posting triple-doubles galore as he dishes out jaw-dropping, no-look passes.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023

When he had finished his beer, Doc went into the kitchen, and cleared the dirty dishes out of the sink.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck