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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If someone deals out a punishment or harmful action, they punish or harm someone. (WRITTEN) ...a failure to deal out effective punishment to aggressors. = mete out PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron) to n

Moby Thesaurus

accord, administer, afford, align, allocate, allot, allow, apportion, array, award, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, broadcast, circumfuse, collocate, communicate, compose, confer, deal, diffract, diffuse, disburse, dish, dish out, dispense, disperse, dispose, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, dole, dole out, donate, extend, fan out, fix, fork out, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, grant, hand out, heap, help, help to, impart, issue, lavish, let have, line, line up, marshal, measure out, mete, mete out, offer, overscatter, oversow, overspread, parcel out, pass around, pay out, place, portion out, pour, present, proffer, propagate, publish, radiate, rain, rally, range, regiment, render, retail, scatter, serve, set out, share out, shell out, shower, slip, snow, sow, sow broadcast, space, splay, spoon out, spread, spread out, strew, tender, utter, vouchsafe, yield