dished

[ disht ]

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adjective

concave: a dished face.
Older Slang. exhausted; worn out.

(of a parallel pair of vehicle wheels) farther apart at the top than at the bottom.

Origin of dished

First recorded in 1580–90; dish + -ed²

Words Nearby dished

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How to use dished in a sentence

She ran the gamut with physical humor and dished out droll, self-deprecating one-liners.
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Guy Ritchie dished out questions for the interview, in which Pitt got political.
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The ex-anchor dished about dating and weight loss with Sheryl Crow and Jessica Simpson in her daytime debut Monday.
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In an interview with Oprah, she dished on her personal success and her secret life as an artist.
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At an inspiring breakfast, Sheryl Sandberg dished on how social media is revolutionizing women's lives.
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Nicky's admirable judgment told him that as a competitive poet he was dished by Prothero.
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I teased up the furnace, I leveled the fire, I dished the cinders in to thicken the heat, and I watched the cobbles.
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She dished her rival, but it is a marvel, with the strange means she employed, that she was not utterly ruined.
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Prevent that by adding to the soup, just before it is dished, a little paste made of flour and butter.
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Naturally he was much surprised at the visit, but he swallowed the story that Abdul Kerim dished up for him.
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British Dictionary definitions for dished

dished

/ (dɪʃt) /

adjective

shaped like a dish; concave
(of a pair of road wheels) arranged so that they are closer to one another at the bottom than at the top

informal exhausted or defeated

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