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have mercy en · INTJ

Meanings

  1. Synonym of lawdamercy.
    • Have mercy! Did you see her walkin by? I'll be thinkin about that sight all night!

Synonyms

lawdamercy

have mercy en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (imperative, usually) To show mercy or compassion; to stop inflicting punishment or a barrage.
    • "I have learnt it!" cried the old man. "Oh, have mercy on me in this hour, if, in my love for her, so young and good, I slandered Nature in the breasts of mothers rendered desperate! Pity my presumption, wickedness, and ignorance, and save her!" 1844 (date written), Charles Dickens, “Fourth Quarter”, in The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1845, →OCLC, page 165:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
having mercy Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
had mercy Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
had mercy Tense=Past lexicographic
has mercy Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

lawdamercy · Lord have mercy

Relateds

mercy me

Synonyms

spare

Translations (18)

es apiadarse (show mercy or compassion) · la miseror (show mercy or compassion) · de sich erbarmen (show mercy or compassion) · hu szán (show mercy or compassion) · pl zmiłować się (show mercy or compassion) · hu megkönyörül (show mercy or compassion) · ar رَحِمَ (show mercy or compassion) · ru пощадить (show mercy or compassion) · grc ἐλεέω (show mercy or compassion) · hu irgalmaz (show mercy or compassion) · cs slitovat se (show mercy or compassion) · cs ušetřit (show mercy or compassion) · hu megszán (show mercy or compassion) · hu könyörül (show mercy or compassion) · hi दया करना (show mercy or compassion) · cs smilovat se (show mercy or compassion) · es ser misericorde (show mercy or compassion) · es mostrar misericordia (show mercy or compassion)