Meaning

Interrogative senses..

Definitions by Sense

1. Interrogative senses.
2. Relative senses.
3. (formal, archaic except literary or poetic) A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.
4. To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
5. To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
6. To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
7. To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
8. Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.

Example Sentences

To knovv the local beginnings of vvinds, is a thing vvhich requires a deep ſearch and Inquiſition, ſeeing that the VVhence and VVhither of vvinds, are things noted even in Scripture to be abſtruſe and hidden.

Mr. [Henry Charles] Carey usually gives his reader a bird's-eye retrospect, from his balloon at the end of each stage, of the where and whither or the zigzags and dark passages of the route gone over from the starting-point, where was the man upon a solitary island picking fruit, down to his present stopping-place.

The whence and whither of their comings and goings made no impression on the community, and when they disappeared no one asked how or why.

I felt sure now that I was in the pensionnat—sure by the beating rain on the easement; sure by the ‘wuther’ of wind amongst trees, denoting a garden outside; sure by the chill, the whiteness, the solitude, amidst which I lay.

Word Forms

• whithers
• whithering
• whithered
• wuther

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Use whither when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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