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With   /wɪð/  /wɪθ/   Listen
preposition
With  prep.  With denotes or expresses some situation or relation of nearness, proximity, association, connection, or the like. It is used especially:
1.
To denote a close or direct relation of opposition or hostility; equivalent to against. "Thy servant will... fight with this Philistine." Note: In this sense, common in Old English, it is now obsolete except in a few compounds; as, withhold; withstand; and after the verbs fight, contend, struggle, and the like.
2.
To denote association in respect of situation or environment; hence, among; in the company of. "I will buy with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you." "Pity your own, or pity our estate, Nor twist our fortunes with your sinking fate." "See where on earth the flowery glories lie; With her they flourished, and with her they die." "There is no living with thee nor without thee." "Such arguments had invincible force with those pagan philosophers."
3.
To denote a connection of friendship, support, alliance, assistance, countenance, etc.; hence, on the side of. "Fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee."
4.
To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; sometimes equivalent to by. "That with these fowls I be all to-rent." "Thou wilt be like a lover presently, And tire the hearer with a book of words." "(He) entertained a coffeehouse with the following narrative." "With receiving your friends within and amusing them without, you lead a good, pleasant, bustling life of it."
5.
To denote association in thought, as for comparison or contrast. "Can blazing carbuncles with her compare."
6.
To denote simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence. "With that she told me... that she would hide no truth from me." "With her they flourished, and with her they die." "With this he pointed to his face."
7.
To denote having as a possession or an appendage; as, the firmament with its stars; a bride with a large fortune. "A maid with clean hands." Note: With and by are closely allied in many of their uses, and it is not easy to lay down a rule by which to distinguish their uses. See the Note under By.


noun
With  n.  See Withe.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... fore-leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breastplate was apparently too thick for him to pierce; and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer's eyes shone with ferocity such as war only could excite. They struggled half an hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looked again the black soldier had severed the heads of his foes from their bodies, and still living heads were hanging on either side of him like ghastly trophies at his saddle-bow, ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... belief—prove a glorious creature. But it was not she whom he wanted. Her development, in proportion as it was rich and complete, led her away from and made her independent of him.—No, it wasn't she, but the child whom he wanted. And, standing at the foot of Damaris' bed, he knew, with a cruel certainty, he was there just simply ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet
... they have to govern. From youth to age, the taste for whatever is called une fete pervades the whole French nation. Madame de Fleury availed herself judiciously of this powerful motive, and connected it with the feelings of affection more than with the passion for show. For instance, when any of her little people had done anything particularly worthy of reward, she gave them leave to invite their parents to a fete ...
— Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales • Maria Edgeworth
... meet me In rain and thunder, With guile to cheat me— My heart to plunder. Was't mine he captured? Or his I raptured? Half-way both ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various
... was coeval with Dardanus. He was in Samothrace before the foundation of Troy. Diodorus Sicul. l. 5. p. 323. Yet he is said to be contemporary with the Argonauts: Clemens Alexandrinus Strom. l. 1. p. 382. and posterior to Tiresias, who was in the time of Epigonoi. Yet Tiresias is said to have prophesied ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) • Jacob Bryant


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