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/bɪˈwiːld/ · verb
(transitive, rare) To hold in hand; rule; control; manage; handle; wield..
But the hands of them that beat him became dry and the hands of the provost also, in such wise that they might not bewield them.
No grey goose quills the weapons used ;—a walking cane one feller With puissant arm bewielded, and the other his umbrella.
6 cubits and a hand's breadth, all which does import that he was a notable Giant, and a 1 great strength to wear such an armor and bewield so heavy a lance.
She was visibly an acid attack survivor. Ali could be seen wrapping his arms around her in the picture. I couldn't bewield this anymore. Interminable sentiments skirmishing inside me shouted for a vent.
Use bewield when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bewield means (transitive, rare) To hold in hand; rule; control; manage; handle; wield..
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But the hands of them that beat him became dry and the hands of the provost also, in such wise that they might not bewield them.
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