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.
have writ
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present perfectof write.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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Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some federal courts have "writ clerks" who do nothing but go over prisoner petitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have writ an History of thy Experiment.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
I have writ to George since, and addressed the letter Warrenton, Va., or elsewhere, thinking he might get it.
From The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman
The chap that wrote that might have writ pahts of it jest fo' me.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
