to take a particular amount of something from a larger amount
Gordie had been trained to measure out the pills his mother was to take, to provide them at specific hours with half a glass of water.
It was his duty, he said, to measure out this bliss, much as a chef carefully adds garlic essence to a tableful of frying kurmash.
Measure out 10 grams of sugar.
The rhythmic sound of the oars dipping into the water seemed to measure out the remaining moments of our quest.
measures out
measuring out
measured out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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