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Handle skillfully, as a weapon
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wield
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Word definitions for wield in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES brandish/wield a knife (= wave it around in a threatening way ) ▪ A man brandishing a knife burst into the room. exercise/wield influence formal (= use it ) ▪ The Federal Reserve exercises influence on the economy by ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wield \Wield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wielded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wielding .] [OE. welden to govern, to have power over, to possess, AS. geweldan, gewyldan, from wealdan; akin to OS. waldan, OFries. walda, G. walten, OHG. waltan, Icel. valda, Sw. v[*a]lla to ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. of power or authority [syn: exert , maintain ] handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe" [syn: handle ]
Usage examples of wield.
Although the masses will flock to the Plan of Abraxas, those wielding power and money will not easily give up their privileges for the good of society.
In the seventeenth century, the absolutist reaction to the revolutionary forces of modernity celebrated the patrimonial monarchic state and wielded it as a weapon for its own purposes.
Serpent, that I have discovered a way to power vaster than anything Bel Adad, the pitiful Patter of Maqam Nifl and Borsippa, can wield!
I spared little time away from that book, and studied in it incessantly the ways and windings of magic, till I could hold communication with Genii, and wield charms to summon them, and utter spells that subdue them, discovering the haunts of talismans that enthral Afrites and are powerful among men.
After all, the Alaunt were hunting hounds and their master had wielded the Wolven.
He knew he could trust Ament to wield this most awesome of weapons wisely.
The tales of her Whitechapel origin, and heading mobs wielding bludgeons, are absolutely false, traceable to scandalizing anecdotists like Mr.
With an attending Animist, a Lemyri tribe could refuse to deal with anyone wielding or influenced by magic.
In contrast, the Council of the Apocrypha was a small, veiled and purposefully unrecorded papal body wielding an authority that easily rivaled that of the College, the cardinals of the Apocrypha suffered no dominion but that of God and were accountable only to His chosen representative on earth - the Holy Father.
A rare breed of Arcadian with the ability to wield magic effortlessly.
Armed by now, the shouting prisoners hurled themselves on the English who, falling back before the sobers, gun rammers, muskets and belaying pins wielded by these mud-caked figures, were pressed into a mob so dense as almost to prevent the use of weapons.
The squad moved like an inexorable wedge into the blockaded spaceport, wielding clubs and spears.
If such punishment were legal, Blu would be the first in line to volunteer to wield the tar brush.
WORD, created the World in its purity, is its Preserver and Judge, a Holy and Sacred Being, Intelligence and Knowledge, Himself Time without limit, and wielding all the powers of the Supreme Being.
You looked for no weapon of opposition but spit, poker, and basting ladle, wielded by unskilful hands: but, rascals, here is short sword and long cudgel in hands well tried in war, wherewith you shall be drilled into cullenders and beaten into mummy.