mete

/miːt/ verb (present participle meting, past tense and past participle meted)

Translation

mete sth out phrasal verb formal

› to punish someone

cezalandırmak, ceza vermek

[often passive] Long jail sentences are meted out to drug smugglers.701

(Definition of mete verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to not be trusted or popular because people think you have done something bad

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