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dished

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dished

  1. simple past and past participle of dish

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dished

  1. Shaped like a dish; concave.
    Bicycle and cart wheels are often dished.
  2. (archaic, colloquial) Defeated, exhausted.
    • 1835 July, “[Review of Plantagenet]”, in The Westminster Review, volume 23, number 45, page 105:
      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.
    • 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:
      I fear I am clean dished. The Heads of Houses are at this very moment concocting a manifesto against me.
    • 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:
      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.

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