Wield
[wiːld] or [wild]
Definition
(verb.) handle effectively; 'The burglar wielded an axe'; 'The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well'.
(verb.) have and exercise; 'wield power and authority'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.
(v. t.) To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.
(v. t.) To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ; as, to wield a sword; to wield the scepter.
Typist: Richard
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Handle, brandish.[2]. Manage, use, control, make use of.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Manage, handle, employ, sway, brandish
ANT:Mismanage, misemploy, discard, resign, depose, surrender, deposit, abdicate
Checker: Tanya
Definition
v.t. to use with full command: to manage: to use.—adj. Wiel′dable capable of being wielded.—ns. Wiel′der; Wiel′diness.—adjs. Wield′less (Spens.) not capable of being wielded unmanageable; Wiel′dy capable of being wielded: manageable: dexterous active.—Wield the sceptre to have supreme command or control.
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Examples
- But I trust, sir,' said Pott, 'that I have never abused the enormous power I wield. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And anxious thoughts may be swept away, As we bravely wield a broom. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Good-by, Solomon, he added, trying to wield his stick again, but failing now that he had reversed the handle. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You could not wield a sword? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But unseen voices may emanate from unseen and unseeable creatures who wield invisible blades, answered the green warrior. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Every time their eyes met, I saw more and more what a tremendous power that weak, diffident school-girl could wield if she chose to do it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Can I be so weak as to imagine that Mr. Micawber, wielding the rod of talent and of power in Australia, will be nothing in England? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The use of electricity is so common today that the average person does not stop to think of it as a magical power wielding a tremendous influence for betterment in every-day affairs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The nervous arm that wielded it, with such a gigantic force on public characters, was paralysed beneath the glance of the imperious Mrs. Pott. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This very sword has cloven hundreds of Saracen Knights from crown to chin in those old times when Godfrey wielded it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Dost thou hear the hammer of Thor, Wielded in his gloves of iron? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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