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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To handle (a weapon or tool, for example) with skill and ease.
  2. v. To exercise (authority or influence, for example) effectively. See Synonyms at handle.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To have power or sway over; rule; govern; manage.
  2. To use or exert in governing; sway.
  3. Hence, in general, to exercise; put to practical or active use, as a means, an instrument, or a weapon; use with freedom and ease: as, to wield a hammer.
  4. To have; possess; enjoy.
  5. n. Command; power; management.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete To command, rule over; to possess or own.
  2. v. obsolete To control, to guide or manage.
  3. v. To handle with skill and ease, especially of a weapon or tool.
  4. v. To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.
  2. v. To direct or regulate by influence or authority; to manage; to control; to sway.
  3. v. To use with full command or power, as a thing not too heavy for the holder; to manage; to handle; hence, to use or employ.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. handle effectively
  2. v. have and exercise

Etymologies

  1. From Old English wieldan ("to control"), a derivative of wealdan "to govern", from Germanic *walt-. Cognate with German walten, Swedish vålla. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian ul ("to put down, lower, abate, submit"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English welden, from Old English wealdan, to rule, and wieldan, to govern. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (8)

Words with the same meaning

  1. govern
  1. rule
  1. manage
  1. control
  1. sway
  1. handle
  1. ply
  1. manipulate

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. have got
  1. have
  1. hold

same context (18)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. weblike
  2. uncontainable
  3. purple-white
  1. pink-purple
  2. hovercraft
  3. spiry
  1. occurance
  2. nucleonic
  3. chem
  1. Krautrock
  2. heatless
  3. sincethe
  1. contribute
  2. alas!
  3. quicker'n
  1. prohibit
  2. andtherefore
  3. fun

rhymes (21)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Field
  2. afield
  3. appealed
  4. concealed
  1. congealed
  2. field
  3. heald
  4. healed
  1. heeled
  2. neeld
  3. peeled
  4. reeled
  1. repealed
  2. resealed
  3. revealed
  4. sealed
  1. shield
  2. unconcealed
  3. unsealed
  4. wheeled
  1. yield

reverse dictionary (15)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. ply
  2. weld
  3. welte
  1. sway
  2. wield
  3. manage
  1. handle
  2. sdb2
  3. bewield
  1. punditocracy
  2. bear
  3. flourish
  1. might
  2. oppress
  3. two-handed

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