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BE WELL
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be healthy; feel good
Example:
She has not been well lately
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "be well" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
suffer (feel pain or be in pain)
Context examples:
Besides, it is necessary to go to Paris for your little things, and if there is a chance of the war breaking out again, it would be well to lay in a supply.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But thanks to my check-book and the good Altamont all will be well to-night.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To all this, as may be well supposed, I made no answer.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It would be well for the eldest sister if she were equally satisfied with her situation, for a change is not very probable there.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Oh, no! I shall certainly return if all be well.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The matter has ended in reprimands, the opponents have been compelled to shake hands, and there is every hope that all will be well.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, now that she has written her letters, she says she shall soon be well.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
And I am so glad your sister is going to be well married!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“But now that my dear uncle is come, I hope everything will be well.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
