might

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  1. noun The power, force, or influence held by a person or group.
  2. noun Physical strength.
  3. noun Strength or ability to do something. See Synonyms at strength. See Regional Note at powerful.

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  • My English teacher thinks it might have been a German word. —  The Word Detective
  • While haiku in English might be fun, they fail to capture the essence that those in Japanese do, and rhyming in Japanese is far less interesting, since it's a syllabic language from the start. —  COMIXTALK
  • "While haiku in English might be fun, they fail to capture the essence that those in Japanese do," —  COMIXTALK
  • It might -- might -- have found an audience in that transitional period between soft - and hard-core, when men would sit through anything to see a breast, but even then, I dunno.
  • But in fairness there have been a couple of signs that things might -- and we stress, might, here -- be getting less bad. —  Marketplace
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English meaht, miht; see magh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English meahte, mihte, first and third person sing. past tense of magan, to be able; see may1.

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  1. from Middle English mighte, myghte, miht, myht, myʒt, also maught, macht, maht, from Anglo-Saxon miht, mieht, meht, mǣht, meaht = Old Saxon maht= OFries. macht = Dutch magt = Middle Low German maeht = Old High German Middle High German maht, German macht = Icelandic māttr (leel. also makt, mekt = Swedish makt = Danish magt, after G.) = Gothic (Moesogothic) mahts, power, might; with abstract formative -t (-ti-) (cf. the adjective, Anglo-Saxon meaht, mæht, powerful, possible, = Goth, mahts, possible), from the root of may (Anglo-Saxon magan, indicative mæg), be able, have power: see may
 

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