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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fantasy, human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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verb
To possess the mind of (and see through the eyes of) another person or animal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: fantasy, lifestyle
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verb
To switch to another player character during a game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Crusader Kings fandom slang
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History
Learned borrowing from Old Norse vargr (“wolf”), reintroduced by J. R. R. Tolkien; compare also Old English wearg. The verb senses emerged from the use of warg in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels as a noun referring to a person with a magical skin-changing ability.
