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What is the verb for write?

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write
  1. (transitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.
  2. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
  3. (transitive) To send written information to.
  4. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.
  5. (intransitive) To be an author.
  6. (computing) To record data mechanically or electronically.
  7. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.
  8. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.
  9. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “Perhaps you should write your thoughts down first before speaking.”
      “You will need to write the due date on the invoice.”
      “We are tantalizingly close to finding out which of these contestants will go on to write a bestselling cookbook.”
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writeing
  1. Archaic spelling of writing.
  2. Misspelling of writing.
wrote
  1. simple past tense of write
  2. (informal, nonstandard) past participle of write
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “She wrote a caustic report about the decisions that led to the crisis.”
      “He also resisted the vulgar racist stereotypes of the day and wrote about the slave trade with an antiracializing rhetoric.”
      “The author wrote a quartet of novels about the same character.”
writes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of write
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He says that he writes in airports, on planes and trains and between meetings.”
      “For my money, it's when Alien swells his chest and lets out his yawp that he writes most compellingly.”
      “Producer Danny Schechter writes about his attempt to get a national PBS airdate.”
writeth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of write
wroten
  1. (archaic) past participle of write; written.
writest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of write
wrotest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple past form of write
writed
  1. (nonstandard) simple past tense and past participle of write
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ben and I writed cards for the game, and the cards told the players which continent to go to. ”
      “I writed to my client about the new product, and I've not got anything from her so far.”
      “For the period from 1968 to 1972, the SPC noted that the Commission had approved over $1 billion in writed owns of book value for various carriers.”
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