bewreak

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verb

To avenge; revenge.

OriginMiddle English bewreken →
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Meanings

verbbewreak (third-person singular simple present bewreaks, present participle bewreaking, simple past and past participle bewreaked)

present singular third person bewreaks · participle present bewreaking · participle past bewreaked · past bewreaked · alternative bewreke

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo avenge; revenge.

    Gemoted warriours to bewrecke her bedde

    1778, Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems
  2. transitiveTo give vent in action to (incensed feelings).

    The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor; […]

    1841, John Foxe, The History of John Wickliffe, page 21

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
avenge

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbewreken“to take revenge, avenge”
  2. Englishbewreak

From Middle English bewreken (“to take revenge, avenge”), equivalent to be- + wreak. Compare Old English bewrecan (“to drive away, exile, banish”). Compare awreak.

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Chicago

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