Were [verb]
Definition of Were:
exist
Synonyms of Were:
● Breathe
● Do
● Last
● Prevail
● Move
● Remain
● Rest
● Stay
● Persist
● Live
● Continue
● Subsist
● Stand
● Act
● Survive
● Inhabit
● Hold
● Obtain
● Abide
● Endure
● Go on
● Be alive
● Have being
● Have place
Opposite/Antonyms of Were:
● Halt
● Die
● Quit
● Give up
● Leave
● Go
● Depart
● Stop
● Pass
● Lose
● Idle
● Forsake
● Reject
● Refuse
● Discontinue
● Cease
Sentence/Example of Were:
There was a certain difficulty in obtaining the necessary funds without announcing precisely what they-were for.
In pattern it showed bright green flowers-that-never-were sprawling on a purple background.
In Abyssinia, at the present day, blacksmiths are considered to be were-wolves, according to Winstanley.
In tropic countries we have stories of supernatural snakes, who appear in various forms, as were-snakes, shall we say?
Accordingly they returned to the Court, where the 288 were-wolf became an object of the greatest curiosity to all.
The were-wolf superstition is, or was, as prevalent in Brittany as in other parts of France and Europe.
The King hearkened to this sage counsel, for he loved the were-wolf, and was loath to have him slain.
Olaus Magnus says that the were-wolves of Livonia drained a cup of beer on initiation, and repeated certain magical words.
Terrible weapons indeed they-were, with heavy pieces of iron and lead sewn into them underneath the oxhide.
He reviewed strange signs that were-in-the-air-to-day, seeing them all as aspects of one single thing.