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wrixle

wrixle verb: to exchange.

Verb

wrixle (third-person singular simple present wrixles, present participle wrixling, simple past and past participle wrixled)

  1. (obsolete) To exchange.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To alter, as one's mind or mental faculties; effect a change in.
  3. (obsolete) To exchange opinions; speak one's mind; share thoughts; communicate.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To envelop, wrap; confuse; confound.

Forms of wrixle

third-person singular presentwrixles
present participlewrixling
past participlewrixled
pastwrixled
alternative formwirsle
alternative formwissle
alternative formwistle
alternative formwissel

Origin of wrixle

From Middle English wrixlen, from Old English wrixlan, wixlan (“to change, exchange, reciprocate”), from Proto-Germanic *wihslijaną, *wihslōną (“to change”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyḱ- (“to change”). Cognate with Scots wissel (“to exchange, barter”), Dutch wisselen (“to exchange, barter, swap”), German wechseln (“to change, switch”), Icelandic víxl (“cross, interchange”), Latin vicis (“change, alteration, diversity, reciprocity”).

Questions about wrixle

What does wrixle mean?
Wrixle means to exchange.
What part of speech is wrixle?
Wrixle is a verb.
What is the past tense of wrixle?
The past tense of wrixle is wrixled.

Words near wrixle in the dictionary

  1. writtenness
  2. writter
  3. writting
  4. writtings
  5. Writtle
  6. wrixle
  7. wrixled
  8. wrixles
  9. wrixling
  10. Wrixon
  11. wrizled

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