Antonyms for wield
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1. wield

   Antonyms:
   mismanage, misemploy, discard, resign, depose, surrender, deposit, abdicate

   Synonyms:
   manage, handle, employ, sway, brandish

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1. • Hold
   • Manipulate

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1. wield, exert, maintainverb

   have and exercise

   "wield power and authority"

   Synonyms:
   asseverate, keep up, keep, conserve, observe, hold, handle, manage, assert, defend, sustain, maintain, exert, uphold, preserve, exercise

2. wield, handle, manageverb

   handle effectively

   "The burglar wielded an axe"; "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well"

   Synonyms:
   superintend, make out, wangle, make do, cope, contend, do by, supervise, finagle, handle, palm, plow, manage, pull off, oversee, grapple, cover, negociate, maintain, address, treat, carry off, bring off, exert, get by, do, care, deal

How to use wield in a sentence?

1. Jonathan Pershing:

   Part of what we have to do is we have to wield the stick, but we also have to have the carrot, the carrot might be in the way we can offer [ countries ] an alternative model of growth and development.

2. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   Challenges are catalysts for greatness; wield them, don't yield to them.

3. Raghuram Selvaraju:

   Ian's main concern is to get lower taxes for Pfizer through an inversion. He would rather be able to say he pulled this tax inversion off, and now I'm going to let Brent crack the whip and wield the axe.

4. Daniel Kelemen:

   Their goal now is to wield influence within The EU while picking up The EU money to run their regimes with The EU.

5. Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie:

   The in and out campaigns are really about unilateralism versus internationalism. Most businesses support the EU and internationalism, for Britain to wield the economic political and diplomatic capital it has historically enjoyed, we must vote to Remain.

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