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bewreak

bewreak verb: to avenge; revenge.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To avenge; revenge.
    • Gemoted warriours to bewrecke her bedde1778, Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems
  2. (transitive) To 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

Forms of bewreak

third-person singular presentbewreaks
present participlebewreaking
past participlebewreaked
pastbewreaked
alternative formbewreke

Origin of bewreak

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

Questions about bewreak

What does bewreak mean?
Bewreak means to avenge; revenge.
What part of speech is bewreak?
Bewreak is a verb.
What is the past tense of bewreak?
The past tense of bewreak is bewreaked.

Words near bewreak in the dictionary

  1. bewraying
  2. bewrayingly
  3. bewrayings
  4. bewrayment
  5. bewrays
  6. bewreak
  7. bewreath
  8. bewreathed
  9. bewreathing
  10. bewreaths
  11. bewreck

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