Word Finder - wits

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(now usually in the plural) Sanity.

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He's gone completely out of his wits.

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(obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.

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Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

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Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.

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The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.

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My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.

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Intelligence; common sense.

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The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!

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Humour, especially when clever or quick.

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The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.

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A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.

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Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?

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Senses.

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Sanity

I found it very hard to keep my wits about me.

Be kind, and use your wits.

I want him awake with his wits about him when we talk.

At the end of her wits, Jessi held out her hand to the tall brunette.

Be sure to keep your wits about you, however.

We had to rely on our wits as well as our bodies to get into and out of some really rough places.

No, lad, either you fellows have all lost your wits, or I have outlived mine.

She, poor innocent creature, is left to be victimized by an old man who has outlived his wits.

We were at our wits ' end, not knowing what was wrong with him.

With your wits, instincts, fighting ability and detective skills solve the mystery of the increasing number murders caused by serial killers in the city.

Use spells, melee combat and your wits to survive and succeed in your quests.

Use weapons, magic and your wits to stop the chaos from destroying their world.

A great idea and a great implementation, Sudoku Combat allows you to play against friends or strangers in a simple game of wits.

This time Harry and his friends work together in a multitude of quests using only their wits and spell casting abilities to aid them.

You'll be offered 3 different characters to choose from, and the ability to use weapons, magic and your wits to save the kingdom from a vicious tyrant.

Use your strength, wits and magic to adventure through the dangerous world of Middle Earth.

In this task-oriented puzzle game you must have your wits about you as you venture into the blissful world of Mercury.

The atmospheric games place you on a mysterious planet armed with only your power suit and your wits.

This title allows you to interact with a highly detailed environment, using both your tools and your wits to defeat enemies and explore exotic locations.

As an agent, you rely a lot on your wits, athletics and weaponry to succeed in each mission.

You will use the multiple weapons you find, combined with your wits to solve the mystery of Torque's past.

Each area will have its own challenges, testing your wits and putting your character closer to the brink of insanity.

Just be careful to let your opponent know you are using such a website - perhaps the game will turn into a battle of wits through the Internet rather than the game board!

The most award-winning party game ever, Wits and Wagers is a trivia game for people who may not be good at trivia.

Wits and Wagers is a fast paced, fun filled Las Vegas style game.

I'm at my wits end and don't want to push him away further because I do believe he loves and cares for me.

When a candidate for Senate falls in love with the wait staffer of a local New York hotel, the Senatorial hopeful's press team finds themselves at their wits' end.

Frozen for a few moments by the audacity of this woman, the two men finally collected their wits and dashed out the door after her, but she was already gone.

When Santa Barbara ended, Walker returned to Pine Valley and Liza, as a foil for Dixie's relationship with husband Tad.For over a decade, Walker portrayed Liza Colby as she matched wits with some of the most eligible bachelor's in town.

I made it through my first knitting sock with my wits intact, and you can, too.

Survivor - Contestants battle wits and weather to survive nature in exotic locales.

American Gladiators is a test of speed, strength, and wits.

Discovery Channel and Science Channel show Survivorman puts survivalist expert Les Stroud in dangerous situations in the wilderness where he must rely on his skills and wits to escape.

We never-the-less decided to postpone discussion until the following day when, as Martha said, we had a night of rumination and our wits about us.

She was frightened out of her wits, like the rest of us but it's not like her to just drop out of sight, unless Quinn talked her into it.

It was ridiculous to stand here, trying to match wits with such a polished salesman.

And then, it's up to my wits to keep me alive.

And he who would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when he was awake, by the prophetic and enthusiastic nature, or what he has seen, must first recover his wits; and then he will be able to explain rationally what all 1 This misunderstanding of Acts ii.

Some of his verses attracted the attention of the town, and the earl of Rochester, with Sir Charles Sedley and other wits, came down to see him.

The vine-growers were at their wits' end to account for this new plague, which threatened to be even more costly than the oidium.

Much of Holbach's fame is due to his intimate connexion with the brilliant coterie of bold thinkers and polished wits whose creed, the new philosophy, is concentrated in the famous Encyclopedie.

Of this the chief wits and great men of the nation were members and its badge was a gridiron.

The city was the literary centre of Federalist ideas in the latter part of the 18th century, being the home of Lemuel Hopkins, John Trumbull, Joel Barlow and David Humphreys, the leading members of a group of authors known as the " Hartford Wits "; and in 1814-1815 the city was the meeting-place of the famous Hartford Convention, an event of great importance in the history of the Federalist party.

In social life, in the company of the wits and writers of his day, his faculties seemed to desert him.

Doubtless this coincidence gave a ready handle to the scoffing wits of the time, and among the numerous popular names given to the Beghards - bons garcons, boni pueri, boni valeti and the like - we find also that of Lollards (from Flemish liillen, " to stammer").

Wessel, who up to that time had only been known as the president of a club of wits, immediately wrote Love without Stockings (1772), in which a plot of the most abject triviality is worked out in strict accordance with the rules of French tragedy, and in most pompous and pathetic Alexandrines.

The great dogmas of the Christian Church were shaped by the interplay of the subtle wits of the theologians of the Oriental Churches.

And I do easily see, that place of any reasonable commandment doth bring commandment of more wits than of a man's own.

As he himself said, he " rang the bell which called the wits together."

Myths of unknown antiquity, for example, have been attracted into the legend of Charlemagne, just as the bons mots of old wits are transferred to living humorists.