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with the hair of the suspect.
wistful adj. 1 melancholy, mournful, sad, morose, sorrowful,
disconsolate, heartsick, forlorn, woeful, woebegone, desirous,
longing, yearning: She gave a last, wistful look at the
aeroplane as it rose into the clouds. 2 thoughtful,
contemplative, pensive, absent-minded, detached, absorbed, in a
brown study, preoccupied, meditating, meditative, reflective,
ruminating, ruminative, dreamy, dreaming, day-dreaming, musing:
Some might have misinterpreted his wistful gaze at her
photograph.
wit n. 1 intelligence, brains, mind, (common) sense, judgement,
understanding, discernment, wisdom, sagacity, insight,
astuteness, cleverness, Slang savvy: He hasn't the wit to know
when he's being insulted. 2 humour, drollery, levity, joking,
repartee, raillery, facetiousness, waggishness, badinage,
repartee, jocularity, wordplay, paronomasia; amusement,
entertainment: Some say that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
3 comedian, comedienne, humorist, comic, wag, joker, farceur,
farceuse, punster, madcap, zany; parodist, satirist,
caricaturist; Colloq pundit, card, character: In the face of
such a devastating remark, even the club wit was struck dumb.
witch n. 1 sorceress, enchantress, magician, sibyl, pythoness;
warlock: The witches prophesied that Macbeth would be king. 2
hag, fury, battleaxe, crone, gorgon, Medusa, ogress, Xanthippe,
shrew, virago, harridan, fishwife, termagant, Archaic beldam or
beldame, Offensive old bag, bitch: How could you stand living
with the old witch for so many years?
withdraw v. 1 draw back, retract, pull back, recoil, shrink back: He
would suddenly withdraw into his cocoon whenever she said the
name, 'Elsie'. 2 retract, recall, take back, cancel, rescind,
recant, disavow, disclaim, abjure, void, annul, go back on, back
down (on): If she doesn't withdraw that remark, I shall sue her
for slander. 3 pull out, extract, remove, Technical retrude:
Afterwards, she withdrew the knife, washed it, and replaced it
in the rack. The dentist withdrew the bad tooth. 4 retire,
retreat, go, repair: After dinner, we withdrew to the
drawing-room for brandy and cigars. 5 leave, depart, go, make
(oneself) scarce, absent (oneself), retire: We waited till the
servants withdrew before exchanging news about Cora.