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What is the verb for wise?

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wise
wis
  1. (obsolete or archaic) To know.
  2. (obsolete or archaic) To think, suppose.
  3. (obsolete or archaic) To imagine, ween; to deem.
wise
wisse
  1. (archaic) to show, teach, inform, guide, direct
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ruckus Wireless has become one of AccorHotels' worldwide standards, stated Jeroen Wisse, IT Director, MEA, at AccorHotels.”
      “In shahnameh, the old people's faces of Wisse and Agrirath are so attractive that the reader Feels sympathy about them.”
      “In part I, on the influence of anchoritic spirituality upon later lay piety, Bella Millett writes on Ancrene Wisse and the Book of Hours.”
wiss
  1. (archaic) To know, to understand.
  2. Examples:
    1. “To this thai all assentyt ar, And bad thair men all mak thaim yar For to be boune, agayne that day, On the best wiss that cuir thai may.”
      “Now with their might they downe me pull, and bring me where they woll, the Blood of myne heart I wiss now causeth both Joy and blisse.”
      “Only I wiss I could think of somefin to vex her more than this.”
wisen
  1. To become wiser.
wissed
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wiss or wisse
wisens
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wisen
wisses
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wiss
wisened
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wisen
wised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of wise
  2. Examples:
    1. “Meanwhile, the attitudes of the younger generation are largely secular and wised up.”
      “The government has wised up to the crafty ways of the wily general.”
      “A'course I shoulda wised you up earlier about Dunham but I thought you were on.”
wisening
  1. present participle of wisen
wising
  1. present participle of wise
  2. Examples:
    1. “The public are wising up because if recent past elections are anything to go by apathetic turn outs just keep getting worse.”
      “We are wising up to such something-for-nothing marketing schemes which turn out to be the opposite.”
      “Others wising up to the concept of variety conduct business both on an outcall and incall basis.”
wissing
  1. present participle of wiss
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