wish

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭsh
• IPA: /wɪʃ/
• SAMPA: /wIS/
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Homophones

• whish (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Verb

Plain form wish

Third-person singular wishes

Past tense wished

Past participle wished

Present participle wishing

1. When you wish for something, you want it and hope for it; you want it to happen.

Noun

Singular wish

Plural wishes

1. A wish is something that has not happened yet but you want to happen.

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