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单词 whom
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Definition of whom in English:

whom

pronoun huːmhum
  • Used instead of ‘who’ as the object of a verb or preposition.

    interrogative pronoun whom did he marry?
    her mother, in whom she confided, said it wasn't easy for her
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The poor reader must be as confused as Media Watch about who has done what to whom.
    • Both explore who said what to whom, or who made up what and why, in the run-up to the war.
    • Your victim could be the workmate with whom you shared a sandwich from your lunchbox.
    • Each poster featured three women laughing, one of whom had a glass of wine in her hand.
    • To my left was a battered pair, both of whom had dark rings under their eyes and swollen faces.
    • Only three people are still living at the hostel, one of whom is said to have a firm offer of a new home.
    • Passively loved by the rich, he had a playboy father to whom he dedicates this book.
    • People will now vote for whom they are told, forced to vote by people who have a hold over them.
    • The couple have two sons, one of whom lives with them while the other is in Somerset.
    • She has come with two friends, one of whom is carrying her dinner in a cardboard box.
    • That is not a solution available to most people for whom email has become a necessity.
    • So many people to say hello to, none of whom you really notice when you work there every time.
    • She said other businesses to whom she had spoken were willing to take the same action.
    • Perhaps he tried it out on a few friends, who showed it to their friends, one of whom took a copy.
    • This will be a comfort to Cameron, over whom Vogts had appeared to blow hot and cold.
    • The congenial old All Black to whom he had been chatting was suddenly a different man.
    • It has yet to make up its mind as to whom to talk, what to talk and how to move in this matter.
    • The team also spoke to people in the West End Bar, some of whom were there the week before.
    • I am now with a lady of whom I am fond, but not in love, and I find it harder to respond to her.
    • You are never quite sure which actor is sitting where, or which voice belongs to whom.

Usage

On the use of who and whom, see who

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, room, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, womb, zoom
 
 

Definition of whom in US English:

whom

pronounhumho͞om
  • Used instead of “who” as the object of a verb or preposition.

    interrogative pronoun whom did he marry?
    relative pronoun her mother, in whom she confided, said it wasn't easy for her
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You are never quite sure which actor is sitting where, or which voice belongs to whom.
    • The poor reader must be as confused as Media Watch about who has done what to whom.
    • Only three people are still living at the hostel, one of whom is said to have a firm offer of a new home.
    • The couple have two sons, one of whom lives with them while the other is in Somerset.
    • Your victim could be the workmate with whom you shared a sandwich from your lunchbox.
    • I am now with a lady of whom I am fond, but not in love, and I find it harder to respond to her.
    • The congenial old All Black to whom he had been chatting was suddenly a different man.
    • The team also spoke to people in the West End Bar, some of whom were there the week before.
    • Both explore who said what to whom, or who made up what and why, in the run-up to the war.
    • It has yet to make up its mind as to whom to talk, what to talk and how to move in this matter.
    • She has come with two friends, one of whom is carrying her dinner in a cardboard box.
    • People will now vote for whom they are told, forced to vote by people who have a hold over them.
    • Passively loved by the rich, he had a playboy father to whom he dedicates this book.
    • To my left was a battered pair, both of whom had dark rings under their eyes and swollen faces.
    • So many people to say hello to, none of whom you really notice when you work there every time.
    • She said other businesses to whom she had spoken were willing to take the same action.
    • This will be a comfort to Cameron, over whom Vogts had appeared to blow hot and cold.
    • Perhaps he tried it out on a few friends, who showed it to their friends, one of whom took a copy.
    • That is not a solution available to most people for whom email has become a necessity.
    • Each poster featured three women laughing, one of whom had a glass of wine in her hand.

Usage

On the use of who and whom, see who
 
 
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