deal
verb/diːl/
/diːl/
Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they deal | /diːl/ /diːl/ |
| he / she / it deals | /diːlz/ /diːlz/ |
| past simple dealt | /delt/ /delt/ |
| past participle dealt | /delt/ /delt/ |
| -ing form dealing | /ˈdiːlɪŋ/ /ˈdiːlɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to give cards to each player in a game of cards
- Whose turn is it to deal?
- deal (something) (out) (to somebody) Start by dealing out ten cards to each player.
- deal somebody something He dealt me two aces.
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- [intransitive, transitive] deal (something) to buy and sell illegal drugs
- You can often see people dealing openly on the streets.
- He was sent to jail for dealing drugs to his friends.
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Word Originverb Old English dǣlan ‘divide’, ‘participate’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch deel and German Teil ‘part’ (noun), also to dole. The sense ‘divide’ gave rise to ‘distribute’, hence sense 1 of the verb and 'deal somebody/something a blow'; the sense ‘participate’ gave rise to ‘have dealings with’, hence senses 2 of the verb and 'deal with'/'deal in'.
Idioms
See deal in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee deal in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishdeal somebody/something a blow | deal a blow to somebody/something (formal)
- to shock somebody/something very much; to be very harmful to somebody/something
- Her sudden death dealt a blow to the whole country.
- to hit somebody/something
deal with it
- used to tell somebody that they cannot change a situation so they must accept it
- That's the way it is, so deal with it!
wheel and deal
- (usually used in the progressive tenses) to do a lot of complicated deals in business or politics, often in a dishonest wayMore Like This Rhyming pairs in idiomsRhyming pairs in idioms
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