v.
 (past wrote; past part. written)
      - mark (letters, words, or other symbols) on a surface, with a pen, pencil, or similar implement. 
▸have the ability to do this:
 he couldn't read or write.
  ▸fill out or complete in writing.
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(write something up)
 write a full or formal account of something.
 ▸Canadian & S. African take (an exam or test).
 - write in a cursive hand, as opposed to printing individual letters.
 - write and send (a letter) to someone. 
▸chiefly N. Amer. write and send a letter to (someone).
 - compose (a text or work) in writing. 
▸compose (a musical work).
 ▸archaic describe in writing.
 - Computing  enter (data) into a specified storage medium or location in store.
 - underwrite (an insurance policy).
 
 
  Phrase
  
    - be written all over one's face
 informal be obvious from one's expression.  - 
(and)
 that's all she wrote
 N. Amer. informal there is nothing more to be said. 
   
  Phrase verbal
  
    - write something down
 reduce the nominal value of stock or goods.  - write someone in
 chiefly US (when voting) add the name of someone not on the original list of candidates and vote for them.  - write something off
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(write someone/thing off)
 dismiss someone or something as insignificant.
 - cancel the record of a bad debt; acknowledge the failure to recover an asset.
 - Brit. damage a vehicle so badly that it cannot be repaired.
 
 
   
  Derivative
  
    
      - writable adj. (chiefly Computing ).
 
    
   
  Etymology
  OE wrītan ‘score, form letters by carving, write’, of Gmc origin.