dished

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/dɪʃt/

adjective

Shaped like a dish; concave.

“Bicycle and cart wheels are often dished.”

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verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of dish
adjectivedished (comparative more dished, superlative most dished)

comparative more dished · superlative most dished

  1. Shaped like a dish; concave.

    Bicycle and cart wheels are often dished.

  2. archaiccolloquialDefeated, exhausted.

    I fear I am clean dished. The Heads of Houses are at this very moment concocting a manifesto against me.

    1841 March 12, John Henry Newman, “[Letter to Harriet Mozley]”, in Anne Mozley, editor, Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church […], volume 2, published 1890, page 292
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    Getting tired, however, of this idol-worship, Lord Arthur gives out that he is ‘dished;’ and his worshippers depart from him as fast as they came.

    1835 July, “[Review of Plantagenet]”, in The Westminster Review, volume 23, number 45, page 105

    I have been in splendid health, and was getting quite fat till within the last few days, when I caught cold on the stupid Rhine […] and just now I am very ‘dished’ indeed.

    1845 June 4, Geraldine Jewsbury, “[Letter to Jane Welsh Carlyle]”, in Anne Ireland, editor, Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle, published 1892, pages 161–2

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveshaped like a dish or pan

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