Englishئاساسىي لۇغەت
writ
Universal Words
noun, verb
noun ~ (for sth) (against sb) a legal document from a court of law telling sb to do or not to do sth:
The company has been served with a writ for breach of contract. * We fully intend to issue a writ against the newspaper.
seealsoHOLYWRIT
verb (old use) past participle of WRITE
IDIOMS
writ large (literary)
1 easy to see or understand:
Mistrust was writ large on her face.
2 (used after a noun) being a larger or more obvious example of the thing mentioned:
The party's new philosophies are little more than their old beliefs writ large.
