to word
- verb
- /wɜrd/
- Can you help me word my invitation so that it sounds more formal?
- strongly worded
- carefully worded
- worded as follows
Hindsight, maybe I could have worded that in a better way.
- Hindsight, maybe I could have worded that in a better way.
- Really, if you will word more of a conglomerate.
Examples
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Red Leather Days are going to get a strongly worded letter as soon as we're out of here.
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I don't know about you... but I intend to... write a strongly worded letter... to the White Star Line about all this.
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Think very carefully of how to word it.
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Well, I didn't word it right.
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I would like it worded that way.
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This needs to be worded correctly.
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The way in which survey questions were worded may also have impacted results when discussing employee benefits.
Academic text (2012) -
The newspaper's analysis of the speech provided a sharply worded review of the president's performance:
Academic text (1997) -
It is a reasonably worded threat.
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Beautifully worded, sir.
Synonyms
Speak words to show information or feelings
To say or write something clearly and officially
To say or write your ideas clearly so others understand
To say the same thing using different words to make it clearer
To create and describe an idea, plan, or theory clearly
To choose words to say something clearly
To say something again in different words to make it clearer
To state something clearly in writing or speech
To put thoughts or feelings into words
To say something in a careful or polite way
Change the words of a sentence to say the same thing more clearly
Idioms
To think carefully about what you have done and decide to act differently
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Formal
Sacred writings and teachings believed to come from God that give guidance for living
- Specialized
A program on a computer for writing, editing and printing text documents
- Literature
Words or phrases that avoid saying something clearly and often make people believe something untrue
A word made from two words that often has a new meaning, like toothpaste or watchdog
- Informal
A polite way to mention the word love when someone feels awkward saying it
- Specialized
A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
- Specialized
A word that shows person, place and time compared to the speaker or listener
- Offensive
A short rude English word of four letters that insults someone
- Specialized
A word that enters a language because of a mistake, like a misprint, and has no real use
- Specialized
A word at the top of a dictionary page showing the first or last entry on that page
- Specialized
A general word that includes more specific words like bird for sparrow
- Slur
A rude word used to insult people with an intellectual disability, replaced by the letter R
- Specialized
A word that names a more specific kind than a general word, like 'poodle' for 'dog'
How Specific
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb word comes from the noun word and simply means to put something into words or phrase it carefully. So to 'word' a sentence is to choose the right 'words' to say it.