Usually means: Exercise control or use effectively.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word wield:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. wield: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. wield: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. wield: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. wield: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wield: Vocabulary.com
  6. Wield, wield: Wordnik
  7. wield: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. wield: Wiktionary
  9. wield: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. wield: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wield: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wield: Dictionary.com
  13. wield: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wield: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wield: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wield: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wield: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wield: Rhymezone
  19. wield: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wield: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wield: Free Dictionary
  22. wield: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. wield: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wield: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wield: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wield: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To command, rule over; to possess or own.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To control, to guide or manage.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To carry out, to bring about.
▸ verb:  To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool.
▸ verb:  To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.
▸ noun:  Rule, command; power, control, wielding.
▸ noun:  Acronym of Western Institute for Endangered Language Documentation.

Similar:
exert, maintain, handle, bewield, master, possess, command, have, seigniorize, oversway, more...

Opposite:
wielder

Types:
use, employ, exert, manipulate, handle, operate, more...

Phrases:
to wield the scepter, Dual wield, wield influence, to wield, wield power, more...

Adjectives:
grecian, valiant, gauntlet, high, axe, caestus, brandished, potent, present

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     bronze,     iron,     copper, more...


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Similar:
exert, maintain, handle, bewield, master, possess, command, have, seigniorize, oversway, more...

Opposite:
wielder

Types:
use, employ, exert, manipulate, handle, operate, more...

Phrases:
to wield the scepter, Dual wield, wield influence, to wield, wield power, wield good lathi to descend, more...

Adjectives:
grecian, valiant, gauntlet, high, axe, caestus, brandished, potent, present

Colors:
    silver,     gold,     bronze,     iron,     copper, more...



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