Meaning

1 senses

  1. (usually)To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).

Examples

4 sentences

  1. My teacher meted out physical punishment to his pupils.

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  2. The court has the power to mete out sentences.

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  3. It's punishment meted out on the basis of skin color.

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  4. Tom was unprepared for the scathing criticism meted out to him by his boss.

    deTom war nicht vorbereitet auf die scharfe Kritik, die sein Chef an ihm übte.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compar

From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”).

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Forms

metes, meting, meted, meted
Base formmete · to mete
3rd person singularmetes
Present participlemeting
Past simplemeted
Past participlemeted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymete
he, she, itmetes

Past simpleLesson

all personsmeted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave meted
he, she, ithas meted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill mete

Word family

10 related words
DerivedmeterA2bemeteevenmetemetagemetelymete outmetewandmeteyardmetsterunmeted

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
metaphoricalmetaphoricallymetaphysicalmetaphysicsmeteormeteoritemeteorologicalC2
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