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wits

/wɪts/ noun B2
  1. Senses.
  2. Sanity.
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It’s worth quite a little fortune to any man who gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits’ end what to do with the money.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 7 · B2
That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits’ end, so Mrs.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 50 · C1
Thomas was at _her_ wits’ end, so she said, what to do with me.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 51 · C1
There he lay in the hall, and we were at our wits’ end what to do.
Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce-Partington Plans, p. 38 · B2

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