dish out

== English == === Verb === dish out (third-person singular simple present dishes out, present participle dishing out, simple past and past participle dished out) (transitive) To put (food) on to a dish ready for eating. (transitive) To distribute (a thing). (transitive, figuratively) To distribute or deliver something. (transitive, architecture) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood. ==== Synonyms ==== (food): dish up, serve (distribute): distribute, give out, hand out, hand round, pass out, pass round (figuratively): give out ==== Translations ====