wish
Usage
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To wish is to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something; the strength of the feeling may be of greater or lesser intensity: I wish I could go home. Desire, a more formal verb, suggests a strong wish: They desire liberation. Want, usually colloquial in use, suggests a feeling of lack or need that imperatively demands fulfillment: People all over the world want peace.
Example Sentences
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Oh, wisha, who's going to go bail for me?
From Duty, and other Irish Comedies by O'Brien, Seumas
Then wisha, my daughter, think what a good thing it will be for the child.
From The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill by Caine, Hall, Sir
Ah, wisha, Miss Clodagh," she began in a voice that trembled between chagrin and an inherent sense of hospitality, "isn't that a quare thing for you to be doin' now?
From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil
‘Oyeh, wisha nothin’,’ says he; ‘maybe ’t is only fancy o’ me.’
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
Wisha, wisha, but I was a haythen to mention it at all.
From The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William
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