Synonyms for wield
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1. wield

   Synonyms:
   manage, handle, employ, sway, brandish

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Hold
   • Manipulate

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1. wieldverb

   Synonyms:
   handle, brandish

2. wieldverb

   Synonyms:
   manage, use, control, make use of

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1. List of paraphrases for "wield":

   exercise, exert

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How to use wield in a sentence?

1. Gore Vidal:

   It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

2. Ramogi Huma:

   If athletes immediately unionized without a willingness to withhold their labor, they would be pushed into a bad CBA, athletes will wield the most leverage toward a fair agreement by first establishing employee status, which will lead toward free market wages.

3. 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.

4. Phyllis Fagell:

   The good news is that you still wield a ton of influence at this age, you can help our child acquire key skills and cope with the inevitable awkwardness, self-consciousness and insecurity that every middle schooler is going to experience.

5. Fed Chair Jerome Powell:

   This trade-off is one for our elected representatives, who wield powers of taxation and spending.