dish
/dɪʃ/ verb C2- To put in a dish or dishes; serve, usually food.
- To gossip; to relay information about the personal situation of another.
- To insult, speak ill of.
- To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish. · to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes
He/she/it dishes · Past dished · Past participle dished · -ing form dishing
Verb forms
- Base form
- dish
- He/she/it
- dishes
- Past
- dished
- Past participle
- dished
- -ing form
- dishing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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The woman now called to them that supper was ready, so they gathered around the table and Dorothy ate some delicious porridge and a dish of scrambled eggs and a plate of nice white bread, and enjoyed her meal.
While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish.
He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.
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