to mete out punishment to sb
1mete out something — mete out (something) to give or order a punishment. The jail sentences meted out to drug traffickers were considered too light by US officials …
2mete out — (something) to give or order a punishment. The jail sentences meted out to drug traffickers were considered too light by US officials …
3mete out — verb administer or bestow, as in small portions administer critical remarks to everyone present dole out some money shell out pocket money for the children deal a blow to someone the machine dispenses soft drinks • Syn: ↑distribute, ↑ …
4mete out — PHRASAL VERB To mete out a punishment means to order that someone should be punished in a certain way. [FORMAL] [V P n (not pron)] His father meted out punishment with a slipper. [V ed] ...the two year sentence meted out to a convicted child… …
5mete out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms mete out : present tense I/you/we/they mete out he/she/it metes out present participle meting out past tense meted out past participle meted out formal to give a punishment to someone The same treatment should …
6mete out — they were instructed to mete out harsh punishment Syn: dispense, hand out, allocate, allot, apportion, issue, deal out, dole out, dish out, assign, administer …
7mete out — phr verb Mete out is used with these nouns as the object: ↑justice, ↑punishment …
8punishment — n. 1) to administer, mete out punishment to 2) to impose, inflict punishment on 3) to escape; suffer, take punishment 4) cruel, cruel and unusual; harsh, severe; just; light, mild punishment 5) capital; corporal; summary punishment 6) (mil.)… …
9mete — I. transitive verb (meted; meting) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English metan; akin to Old High German mezzan to measure, Latin modus measure, Greek medesthai to be mindful of Date: before 12th century 1. archaic measure 2. to give out by… …
10mete — mete1 /meet/, v.t., meted, meting. 1. to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually fol. by out): to mete out punishment. 2. Archaic. to measure. [bef. 900; ME; OE metan; c. D meten, ON meta, Goth mitan, G messen to measure, Gk… …
