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
From the library
While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.
Game, or any other dish?
In the very middle of the court was a table, with a large dish of tarts upon it: they looked so good, that it made Alice quite hungry to look at them—“I wish they’d get the trial done,” she thought, “and hand round the refreshments!” But there seemed to be no chance of this, so she began looking at everything about her, to pass away the time.
So, Delia said she must give music lessons to keep the chafing dish bubbling.
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