wit
/wɪt/ verb C2- To know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively). · You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.· They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
Plural wit · He/she/it wot · Past wist · Past participle wist · -ing form witting
Verb forms
- Base form
- wit
- He/she/it
- wot
- Past
- wist
- Past participle
- wist
- -ing form
- witting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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I should as soon call her mother a wit.’ But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time.”
The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: “My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.”
“And yet there should be no combination of events for which the wit of man cannot conceive an explanation.
“Wot’s de word?”
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