Antonyms for write
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : rahyt |
| Phonetic Transcription : raɪt |
Definition of write
Origin :- Old English writan "to score, outline, draw the figure of," later "to set down in writing" (class I strong verb; past tense wrat, past participle writen), from Proto-Germanic *writanan "tear, scratch" (cf. Old Frisian writa "to write," Old Saxon writan "to tear, scratch, write," Old Norse rita "write, scratch, outline," Old High German rizan "to write, scratch, tear," German reißen "to tear, pull, tug, sketch, draw, design"), outside connections doubtful. Words for "write" in most I.E languages originally mean "carve, scratch, cut" (cf. Latin scribere, Greek grapho, Sanskrit rikh-); a few originally meant "paint" (cf. Gothic meljan, Old Church Slavonic pisati, and most of the modern Slavic cognates).
- For men use to write an evill turne in marble stone, but a good turne in the dust. [More, 1513]
- To write (something) off (1680s) originally was from accounting; figurative sense is recorded from 1889. Write-in "unlisted candidate" is recorded from 1932.
- verb put language down on paper
- The reason I write promptly is that you may not go out of the country just now.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- We let the air pass through our closed teeth and we write down "S."
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- But did you ever stop to think what happens when you write a letter?
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- How lucky I did not write to my father that I had broken matters off.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- He can read and write as well as most gentlemen, I can tell you that.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- I don't know what to write, about your answering that man of violence.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- My mother charged me at last, to write that side over again.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- I suppose you will write to the oddities, since you are forbid to see them.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- And indeed what can I write that I have not already written?
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- I did not intend to write; but your too-kind sister has prevailed upon me.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
Synonyms for write
- address
- author
- autograph
- bang out
- chalk
- commit
- communicate
- comp
- compose
- copy
- correspond
- create
- dash off
- draft
- draw up
- drop a line
- drop a note
- engross
- formulate
- ghost
- indite
- ink
- inscribe
- jot down
- knock off
- knock out
- letter
- note
- note down
- pen
- pencil
- push a pencil
- put in writing
- record
- reproduce
- rewrite
- scrawl
- scribble
- scribe
- scriven
- set down
- set forth
- sign
- take down
- tell
- transcribe
- turn out
- typewrite
- write down
- write up
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