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meted

verb as in administer, distribute

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On Sunday, the prime minister said it was opposition groups and not the police that had meted out "systemic violence".

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“Prolific, brutal and horrific” – these words sum up four decades of abuse meted out by John Smyth and affecting scores of boys in the UK and Africa.

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Her ninth child, Max, said his mother meted out discipline in her own way, through healthy competition.

Mr Parkinson said the CPS was "proud of the way we responded", and said the first sentence meted out "probably sent shockwaves".

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Gabriel repeated the treatment meted out to Tottenham by heading Arsenal ahead from a corner at the far post in first-half stoppage time before the moment that shaped the rest of this gripping game.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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