meted
Meaning of meted
verb, past tense
- dispense or allot justice, a punishment, or harsh treatment.
punishments meted out to soldiers who violated army regulations
Old English metan ‘measure’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch meten and German messen ‘to measure’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin meditari ‘meditate’, Greek medesthai ‘care for’, also by meet2.
Information about meted
Hyphenation of meted
meted
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- meted is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
meted synonyms
Meaning distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people:
Meaning divide up and share out:
Meaning give a share or a unit of (something) to each of a number of recipients:
Meaning supply or distribute (something) for use or sale:
Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:
Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:
Meaning confer or present (an honour, right, or gift):
Meaning allocate (a job or duty):
Meaning manage and be responsible for the running of (a business, organization, etc.):
Anagrams of meted
Words that rhyme with meted
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