wow
verb/waʊ/
/waʊ/
(informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they wow | /waʊ/ /waʊ/ |
| he / she / it wows | /waʊz/ /waʊz/ |
| past simple wowed | /waʊd/ /waʊd/ |
| past participle wowed | /waʊd/ /waʊd/ |
| -ing form wowing | /ˈwaʊɪŋ/ /ˈwaʊɪŋ/ |
- wow somebody (with something) to impress somebody very much, especially with a performance
- He wowed audiences around the country with his new show.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryWow is used with these nouns as the object:- audience
Word Originsense 1natural exclamation: first recorded in Scots in the early 16th cent.sense 2 1930s: imitative.
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