write
A1Frequent NGSL-1UK /raɪt/US /raɪt/
Meaning
verb
to make letters or numbers on a surface, especially using a pen or a pencil
“In some countries children don't start learning to read and write until they are six.”
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I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read,
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