Wishing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for WISHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• feel or express a strong desire or hope for something that cannot or probably will not happen
• express a hope that (someone) enjoys (happiness or success)
• want to do something
• want (something) to be done or happen
• want (someone) to do or have something
• hope that (someone) has to deal with someone or something undesirable
NOUN:
• the act of wishing
• a desire or hope for something to happen
• an expression of a desire, typically in the form of a request or instruction
• an invocation or recitation of a hope or desire
• a thing that is or has been wished for
• a specific feeling of desire
• an expression of a hope for someone's success, happiness, or welfare
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to feel an impulse toward attainment or possession of something
• a. & n. from Wish, v. t.

Words related to WISHING

wish10 wished13 wishes12

Words that contain WISHING

swishing15 wishings15 swishings16 unwishing16 outwishing17 swishingly20

How to use WISHING in a sentence

• It was not the first cargo I had helped to run, and I knew most of the men, but did not speak with them, being tired, and wishing to rest till I was wanted.
• Not wishing to leave Veronica even for a moment, she rang the bell.
• So I will now conclude by wishing him all the success that he deserves, in the future and hereafter.
• The queen, roused by the din, and wishing to learn the reason of it, hastily rushed to the doors.
• The second were those who wishing neither to buy nor sell slaves desired merely to keep their estates intact.
• But it was the only way that strangers in the city or those wishing to attend a special service could be sure of ever getting into the church.
• But we must go, for Lady Brigit will be wishing to rise.
• What puzzled him most, however, was the cause of their wishing to have his scalp.
• At this point Chosroes, seated on the tower which is on the height, summoned the ambassadors, wishing to say something.
• Lady Kirton accused him of wishing to sacrifice them to his own selfish gratification.
• I immediately sent it to you, wishing you should see both sides of the subject together.
• A stone seeing this was touched with pity, and, wishing to help the cock, he laid himself across the stream.
• This was the man to whom she had given her heart! He found himself wishing that David had never come back from his search for the lost horses.
• He was wishing passionately, as he stood there, for work, hard, dangerous, gripping work.
• The fairy queen, wishing to see the little fellow thus born into the world, came in at the window while the mother was sitting up in bed admiring him.
• And there the angels stopped, devoutly wishing Some opening there might be, So that they might each one in turn peep through it, And see what they could see.
• After his cold bath he dressed quickly, and went out to walk, wishing himself back in the Libyan desert, where he had not seen or thought of any woman.
• Not wishing to be laid up so far from medical assistance, I decided to return the same evening, which I did, and once more found myself at the Hotel Westminster.
• Wishing not to seem, but to be, envy was a feeling of which he knew little, even before he rose above its level.
• He had yet a long way to go, as he was making a circuit, not wishing to walk direct to the house.
• Hawthorne cannot walk ten minutes now without wishing to sit down, as I think I told you, so that he cannot take sufficient air except in a carriage.
• The work took some time, for the engineer, wishing to produce a great effect, intended to devote not less than seven quarts of nitro-glycerine to the operation.
• Daisy hesitated, wishing, but in doubt if she would be permitted to keep it to herself.
• The temptation to bring the game down was strong, but they resisted, not wishing to make any noise.
• So much so that she walked on in silence, wishing she had not come.
• Behind him walked the Pettifers, Robert ill-at-ease and wishing himself a hundred miles away, Margaret Pettifer boiling for battle.
• He replied, that his own Society had long taken it up as a religious body, and individuals among them were wishing to find me out.
• Nan could not help wishing she had thought to put away the jam, and she wondered how Marilla would treat them all in the morning.
• We would not call them back to endure again their suffering, but we can not help wishing they might have been spared to us in health and vigor.
• Wishing to see the enemy enter the town, we delayed our departure.

Similar words containing WISH without suffix ing

wish10 swish11 wisha11 wisht11 cowish14 dawish13 lowish12 newish12 rawish12 swishy15 unwish12 wished13 wisher12 wishes12 outwish13 slowish13 snowish13 swished14 swisher13 swishes13 wishers13 wishful16 cowishes16 newishly17 nohowish17 shrewish17 swishers14 swishest14 swishier14 swishing15 unwished15 unwishes14 wishbone16 wishings15 wishless14 marrowish17 narrowish15 outwished16 outwishes15 sallowish15 swishiest15 swishings16 tallowish15 unwishful18 unwishing16 willowish18 wishbones17 wishfully21 yellowish18 deathwish19 newishness16 outwishing17 shrewishly22 swishingly20 wishfulness20 wishtonwish23 newishnesses18 shrewishness21 wishfulnesses22 wishtonwishes25 yellowishness22 shrewishnesses23 yellowishnesses24

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