write
verb (used with object)
to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe.
has writ
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present perfectof write (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Air-literary as well as air-minded, he has writ ten two volumes on engineering aspects of the industry, has also written many an article for aeronautical publications.
From Time Magazine Archive
He "knew exactly how7 my mind was working from to day," Churchill has writ ten.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I say, this gal has writ to the agent and told him a pack o' lies about how bad she is treated.
From Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies by Alice B. Emerson
Proclaim salvation from the Lord For wretched, dying men; His hand has writ the sacred word With an immortal pen.
From Bertha and Her Baptism by Nehemiah Adams
Lucian well skill’d in scoffing, this has writ, Friend, that’s your folly which you think your wit; This you vent oft, void both of wit and fear, Meaning an other, when your self you jeer.
From The Complete Angler 1653 by Izaak Walton
