Definitions for mete

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Spelling: [meet]
IPA: /mit/

Mete is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in mete (eemt).

Definitions for mete

noun

  1. a limiting mark.
  2. a limit or boundary.

verb (used with object)

  1. to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out):
  2. Archaic. to measure.

Origin of mete

before 900; Middle English; Old English metan; cognate with Dutch meten, Old Norse meta, Gothic mitan, German messen to measure, Greek mḗdesthai to ponder

Examples for mete

Womankind has long known that style can be used as a weapon to mete out psychological torment.

But it seems to me that temporary reasons are not mete for the occasion.

Confucius said, Love is to mete out five things to all below heaven.

Beware, then, of how you mete out justice to your fellowman.

The same measure that you mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

Let us mete to him with the same measure he measured to them.

With wrath and ire he rose to mete out justice to this highwayman.

After wh he hath begon to speake, he is mete to be taught letters.

Navarro worries that may mean the politically powerful Flores family will mete out their own brand of justice.

Love is not mete out in strict proportion to the merits of those we love.

Word Value for mete
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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