dealt
DELT/ˈdɛlt/
- 1Simple past tense and past participle of deal.
The manager dealt with the customer's complaint quickly and fairly.
He dealt each player five cards before the round began.
Note
One irregular form does both jobs. It is the simple past (she dealt the cards), and it is also the participle after have or in the passive (the cards had been dealt; a heavy blow was dealt). It carries every sense of deal, from sharing out to handling a problem to inflicting damage. So in dealt a blow and dealt with a complaint, only the construction tells the meanings apart.
dealt is a form of deal
deal, verb: To take action to handle, manage, settle, or cope with a person, problem, or situation; usually followed by 'with'. Full entry
- Spelling
- deal → dealt: irregular (no -ed)
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