0 past simple and past participle of wield
1 to hold a weapon or tool and look as if you are going to use it:
She was confronted by a man wielding a knife.
The impression was that the texts ' ' protested too much ' ' and were produced with a view to disproving the popular prejudices wielded against them.
The modernization of state institutions afforded rulers greater power than ever before, which they wielded to silence and co-opt the ulema.
Unfortunately, this only emphasizes the perception that power is being wielded according to personal bias/desire.
There have been comparatively few attempts to explore ageism and the forms it takes or how it is wielded to uphold inequalities based upon age.
In this they merely supplemented the already considerable physical force wielded by the official border security force.
Language has long been used as a tool by which hegemonic power can be wielded over those with alternative world visions.
Some of the nonnative writing might have been further polished, and the editors might have wielded the scissors on some of the cross-contribution repetitiveness.
In response, nineteenth-century women of all classes wielded needles, hooks, and bobbins to an extent previously unknown.
