wite

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.
2. To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
3. To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.

Noun

1. Blame, responsibility, guilt.
2. Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.

Sinonieme

bite the dust

buy the farm

choke

conk

croak

decease

demise

die

💀

drop dead

exit

expire

go

kick the bucket

pass

pass away

pass on

perish

pop off

ring down the curtain

vanish

snuff it

cash in one’s chips

give-up the ghost

cease to be

go to meet ones maker

join the choir invisible

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/waɪt/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), Old English wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to Old English wīte, see below.