wises (up)

verb

present tense third-person singular of wise (up)
1
as in informs
to give information to wised him up to some of the more effective tricks of salesmanship

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2
as in realizes
to come to an awareness of she eventually wised up to the fact that he was taking advantage of her

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wises (up)
  1. informs
  2. realizes
  3. advises
  4. discovers
  5. tells
  6. sees
  7. instructs
  8. learns
Verb
  • The stranger informs her matter-of-factly that Alice’s leg will be amputated unless Anna opts into her payment-plan bargain.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This significant achievement informs her choice to customize a piece that reflects her strength, creativity and tenacity.
    — Footwear News, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of informs
Verb
  • Fearn portrays Owen, a young sound engineer, who falls in love with a girl in a nightclub, gets her number, and the next morning realizes one of the digits is missing.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Now, Woodward has become an ambassador for bringing awareness to an issue that clearly impacts more people than society realizes – or cares to admit.
    — Ben Church, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of realizes
Verb
  • The city advises residents to check things like flowerpots, pet bowls, bird baths, pool covers and other items a couple of times a week for standing water that needs to be dumped.
    — Kaitlyn McCormick, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Federal guidance advises against drinking more than 48 ounces per hour.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of advises
Verb
  • Guadagnino undoes the bubble wrap and discovers Bertolucci’s viewfinder, a key relic for a filmmaker who may well have had the best eye in cinema history.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Written by Helstad, the film follows Jessica Lipki (Greer), a small-town lawyer who discovers a severed human finger in her bowl of chili at a regionally beloved fast-food chain.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of discovers
Verb
  • What Alexa tells you after checking a message The answer depends on what Amazon finds.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Today, Jayson Stark tells us that Judge is simply different from everybody else.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of tells
Verb
  • The company sees the rocket becoming a workhorse launcher of small to medium-size satellites down the road, and its infrastructure supports that vision.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Kendra Ramsey, executive director of the California Bicycle Coalition, sees the expansion of Waymo as a safety benefit, rather than a concern.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of sees
Verb
  • Epic says the site instructs Windows users to press the Windows key and R, paste content from the clipboard and press Enter.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The judge instructs the jury to go back and deliberate further.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of instructs
Verb
  • Israel robs children of their smallest joys because joy is the seed of hope, and that is how the body learns that captivity is not the natural condition of life.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Upon arriving in New York, April learns that her affable son Thoe (Toby Wallace) and his girlfriend Lucy (Odessa A’zion) have already met Sandra without her knowing.
    — Matthew Huff, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of learns
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