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dealt

American  
[delt] / dɛlt /

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of deal.

dealt British  
/ dɛlt /

verb

  1. the past tense and past participle of deal 1

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Dealt a bad card with the safety car but couldn't exactly carve his way through the field and couldn't find a way past Leclerc for the final podium place.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2026

Dealt Cal Foote and a plethora of draft picks to Nashville for hard-plugging forward Tanner Jeannot, a fitness legend who fills a third-line need.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Dealt to the Chicago Cubs prior to the 1977 season, Buckner spent his most productive seasons on the North Side of Chicago.

From Fox News • May 27, 2019

Dealt a very weak hand — a rump Russian state, shorn of empire and saddled with a backward economy and a rusting military — he has restored Russia to great-power status.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2016

Here lies a man which Farmers lov’d Who always to them constant proved; Dealt with freedom, Just and Fair— An honest miller all declare.

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