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Wish   /wɪʃ/   Listen
Wish

verb
(past & past part. wished; pres. part. wishing)
1.
Hope for; have a wish.
2.
Prefer or wish to do something.  Synonyms: care, like.  "Would you like to come along to the movies?"
3.
Make or express a wish.
4.
Feel or express a desire or hope concerning the future or fortune of.  Synonym: wish well.
5.
Order politely; express a wish for.
6.
Invoke upon.  Synonym: bid.  "Bid farewell"
noun
1.
A specific feeling of desire.  Synonyms: want, wishing.  "He was above all wishing and desire"
2.
An expression of some desire or inclination.  Synonym: indirect request.  "His crying was an indirect request for attention"
3.
(usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare.  Synonyms: compliments, regard.  "My best wishes"
4.
The particular preference that you have.  "They should respect the wishes of the people"



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"Wish" Quotes from Famous Books



... occurrence of this case, it was cited as one of the most convincing proofs upon record of the prevalence of witchcraft. When men wish to construct or support a theory, how they torture facts into their service! The lying whimsies of a few sick children, encouraged by foolish parents, and drawn out by superstitious neighbours, were sufficient to set a country in a flame. If, instead of commissioners as deeply sunk ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay
... 'I wish they taught magic at school,' Jane sighed. 'I believe if we could do a little magic it might ...
— The Phoenix and the Carpet • E. Nesbit
... of this island," observed he, as we walked along; "it is more than four hundred years since it was first inhabited, by the crew of a French vessel, which was lost in the Northern Ocean. But I do not wish to leave it. I was cast on it in a whale boat, when separated from the ship in a snow-storm, about twenty-five years ago. I am now a married man, with a family, and am considered one of the wealthiest inhabitants of the island, for I possess between ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat
... relations and conjectures I formerly made of that body, is a matter very difficult to be determined. But indeed, in this description, the Excellent Piso has not been sufficiently particular in the setting down the whole process, as it were to be wish'd: There are indeed very odd progresses in the production of several kinds of Insects, which are not less instructive then pleasant, several of which, the diligent Goedartius has carefully observ'd ...
— Micrographia • Robert Hooke
... are asked to take a cup of tea, in the steam cars, in the shops and by the wayside. A Japanese told me that he could tell whether a person was educated or not by the manner in which he drank tea. They take lessons in tea drinking as we do in any accomplishment we wish to acquire. One friend could not resist buying tea pots and pretty cups; she had a grand collection after ...
— An Ohio Woman in the Philippines • Emily Bronson Conger


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