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Antonyms for wield

Grammar : Verb
Spell : weeld
Phonetic Transcription : wild


Definition of wield

Origin :
  • Old English weldan (Mercian), wieldan, wealdan (West Saxon) "to govern, possess, have control over" (class VII strong verb; past tense weold, past participle gewealden), merged with weak verb wyldan, both from Proto-Germanic *wal-t- (cf. Old Saxon and Gothic waldan, Old Frisian walda "to govern, rule," Old Norse valda "to rule, wield, to cause," Old High German waltan, German walten "to rule, govern").
  • The Germanic words probably are from PIE *waldh- (cf. Old Church Slavonic vlado "to rule," vlasti "power;" Lithuanian veldu "to rule, possess"), from root *wal- "to be strong, to rule" (see valiant).
  • verb control, use
Example sentences :
  • Did he have the brains to wield this money and make it mean something to the world?
  • Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling
  • And since his son is of an age too tender to wield the sceptre, the boy's mother does it in his name.
  • Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini
  • He was ignorant of the irresistible power which the dirty "saint" could wield.
  • Extract from : « The Minister of Evil » by William Le Queux
  • Do you realize how strong a man has to be to wield such a weight as that lump of metal?
  • Extract from : « The Story of Glass » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • The mass of glass was also very heavy for the blower to wield.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Glass » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • My ambition is to wield the power that only the possession of vast wealth confers.
  • Extract from : « The Mask » by Arthur Hornblow
  • It is not fit that such fair hands should be obliged to wield the rod.'
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 » by Various
  • He knew what she desired and what weapons she could wield wherewith to subdue his will.
  • Extract from : « "Unto Caesar" » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • Do you like the sound of the line, “I wield the flail of the lashing hail”?
  • Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester
  • But already they had begun to wield an influence on the affairs of the nation.
  • Extract from : « Land of the Burnt Thigh » by Edith Eudora Kohl

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