| wit | (noun) mental ability | Synonyms: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality |
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| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, witticism, wittiness |
| (noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes | Synonyms: card, wag |
| witbier | (noun) a top-fermented barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium and the Netherlands. | - |
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| witch | (noun) a female sorcerer or magician | Synonyms: enchantress |
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| (noun) a being (usually female) imagined to have special powers derived from the devil | - |
| (noun) an ugly evil-looking old woman | Synonyms: beldam, beldame, crone, hag |
| (noun) a believer in Wicca | Synonyms: Wiccan |
| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx |
| witchcraft | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchery |
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| witchery | (noun) the art of sorcery | Synonyms: witchcraft |
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| witchgrass | (noun) North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land | Synonyms: old witch grass, old witchgrass, Panicum capillare, tumble grass, witch grass |
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| (noun) European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed | Synonyms: Agropyron repens, couch grass, dog grass, quack grass, quackgrass, quick grass, witch grass |
| witching | (adjective) possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers | Synonyms: charming, magic, magical, sorcerous, wizard, wizardly |
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| (noun) the use or practice of witchcraft | - |
| witchlike | (adjective) being or having the character of witchcraft | - |
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| withal | (adverb) together with this | - |
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| (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, yet |
| withdraw | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: seclude, sequester, sequestrate |
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| (verb) remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract | Synonyms: remove, take, take away |
| (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat |
| (verb) take back what one has said | Synonyms: swallow, take back, unsay |
| (verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: disengage |
| (verb) lose interest | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, retreat |
| (verb) remove (a commodity) from (a supply source) | Synonyms: draw, draw off, take out |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, recall |
| (verb) break from a meeting or gathering | Synonyms: adjourn, retire |
| (verb) withdraw from active participation | Synonyms: retire |
| (verb) retire gracefully | Synonyms: bow out |
| withdrawal | (noun) the act of withdrawing | - |
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| (noun) formal separation from an alliance or federation | Synonyms: secession |
| (noun) the termination of drug taking | Synonyms: drug withdrawal |
| (noun) the act of taking out money or other capital | - |
| (noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, onanism, pulling out, withdrawal method |
| (noun) the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc. | - |
| (noun) the act of ceasing to participate in an activity | - |
| (noun) a retraction of a previously held position | Synonyms: backdown, climb-down |
| (noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: detachment |
| withdrawer | (noun) a depositor who withdraws funds previously deposited | - |
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| (noun) a student who withdraws from the educational institution in which he or she was enrolled | - |
| (noun) a contestant who withdraws from competition | - |
| (noun) a drug addict who is discontinuing the use of narcotics | - |
| (noun) an individualist who withdraws from social interaction | - |
| (noun) an authority who withdraws permission | - |
| withdrawn | (adjective) tending to reserve or introspection | Synonyms: indrawn |
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| (adjective) withdrawn from society; seeking solitude | Synonyms: recluse, reclusive |
| withdrawnness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness |
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| withe | (noun) band or rope made of twisted twigs or stems | - |
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| (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withy |
| wither | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel, shrivel up |
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| (verb) lose freshness, vigor, or vitality | Synonyms: fade |
| withered | (adjective) (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture | Synonyms: dried-up, sear, sere, shriveled, shrivelled |
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| (adjective) lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness | Synonyms: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, wizen, wizened |
| withering | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, devastating |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, devastating |
| (noun) any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) | Synonyms: atrophy |
| witheringly | (adverb) in a withering manner | - |
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| withers | (noun) the highest part of the back at the base of the neck of various animals especially draft animals | - |
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| withhold | (verb) hold back; refuse to hand over or share | Synonyms: keep back |
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| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: deduct, recoup |
| withholder | (noun) a person who restrains or checks or holds back | - |
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| (noun) a person who refrains from granting | - |
| withholding | (noun) the act of deducting from an employee's salary | - |
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| (noun) the act of holding back or keeping within your possession or control | - |
| (noun) income tax withheld from employees' wages and paid directly to the government by the employer | Synonyms: withholding tax |
| within | (adverb) on the inside | Synonyms: inside |
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| withstand | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, resist, stand firm |
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| (verb) resist or confront with resistance | Synonyms: defy, hold, hold up |
| withstander | (noun) an opponent who resists with force or resolution | - |
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| (noun) a fighter who holds out against attack | Synonyms: defender |
| withy | (noun) strong flexible twig | Synonyms: withe |
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| witless | (adjective) (used as complement) to the utmost degree | Synonyms: shitless |
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| (adjective) (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment | Synonyms: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted |
| witloof | (noun) young broad-leaved endive plant deprived of light to form a narrow whitish head | Synonyms: Belgian endive, French endive |
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| (noun) widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched | Synonyms: Cichorium endivia, endive |
| witness | (noun) testimony by word or deed to your religious faith | - |
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| (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witnesser |
| (noun) a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind) | Synonyms: looker, spectator, viewer, watcher |
| (noun) (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature | Synonyms: attestant, attestator, attestor |
| (noun) (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law | - |
| (verb) be a witness to | - |
| (verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: find, see |
| witnesser | (noun) someone who sees an event and reports what happened | Synonyms: informant, witness |
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| wits | (noun) the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception | Synonyms: marbles |
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| witticism | (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, wittiness |
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| wittily | (adverb) in a witty manner | - |
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| wittiness | (noun) The quality of being clever, amusingly ingenious. | - |
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| (noun) a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | Synonyms: humor, humour, wit, witticism |
| witting | (adjective) aware or knowing | - |
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| (adjective) intentionally conceived | Synonyms: conscious |
| wittingly | (adverb) with full knowledge and deliberation | Synonyms: knowingly |
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| wittol | (noun) an archaic term for a cuckold who knows about his wife's infidelity but tolerates it | - |
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| witty | (adjective) combining clever conception and facetious expression | - |
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