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Verb: dish out  dish-awt
  1. Provide (usually but not necessarily food)
    "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M";
    - serve, serve up, dish up [informal], dish
     
  2. Give or provide in small portions
    "dish out critical remarks to everyone present";
    - distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, deal out, allot, dole out, mete, dole

Derived forms: dished out, dishes out, dishing out

Type of: cater, give, provide, put up, supply