Meaning of wits' end | Babel Free

Definitions

The limit of one's sanity or mental capacity; the point of desperation.

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“The Seamen they Bestir their stumps, and at wits end⟳ do weep⟳. Wake⟳, Jonas, who saith Heave me over deck.”

“He was so eloquent in drawing the picture of his own⟳ neglected merits, and so pathetic in lamenting over it when it was done, that I felt quite at my wits' end⟳ how to console him, when it suddenly occurred to me that here was a case for the wholesome application of a bit of Robinson Crusoe.”

“The frightened women were at their wits' end⟳.”

“Our dozen cabin passengers sorely put⟳ to wits' end⟳ to pass⟳ yesterday without cards in observance of the Sabbath.”

“Yet years of talks, threats and sanctions have⟳ failed to halt the program⟳, and officials are at their wits' end⟳ on how to wean Iran off its nuclear habit.”

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