wider

• Rhymes: -aɪdə(r)

wider

1. comparative form of wide: more wide

• Dwire, WEIRD, weird, weïrd, wierd, wired, wride, wried

Middle High German wider, Old High German widar, from Proto-Germanic *wiþrą (“against, toward”). Cognate with English wither.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːdɐ/

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• Homophone: wieder

wider + accusative

1. against

   Kain, der erste Rebell wider den autoritären Vater-Gott.

   Cain, the first to rebel against the authoritarian father God.

wider is old-fashioned and is commonly found in set legacy phrases and old texts. Modern German is more partial to the use of gegen.

• gegen

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