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Wish
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Wish
/wɪʃ/
A desire or hope for something to happen or be true
Synonyms:
desire
hope
yearn
aspiration
craving
Antonyms:
reality
fact
actuality
Examples:
'I am a true friend who
wishes
to be your lover.
They
wished
to eat the flesh of this animal.
I told you it was a story about
wishing
.
Etymology:
from Middle English
wischen
from Old English
wyscan
, from Proto-Germanic
wunskōną
, related to older words for desire or hope
Usage Statistics:
118 mentions per 1 million words
Very Often
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