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ywroken

UK/ɪˈɹəʊkən/

ywroken is the past participle of wreak.

Meaning of wreak

Verb

wreak (third-person singular simple present wreaks, present participle wreaking, simple past wreaked or (nonstandard) wrought or (obsolete) wroke, past participle wreaked or (nonstandard) wrought or (obsolete) wroke or (obsolete) wroken)

  1. (transitive) To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
    • The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
  2. (archaic) To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.
    • The police abused their authority to wreak an innocent.
  3. (archaic) To inflict or take vengeance on.
    • their woe / Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak / Itself abroad;1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
  4. (archaic) To take vengeance for.
    • Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield...

See all 6 meanings of wreak

Adjective

ywroken (comparative more ywroken, superlative most ywroken)

  1. (archaic) Avenged.
    • The Prince […] Pursu'd him streight; in mynd to bene ywroken / Of all the vile demeane and usage bad […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of ywroken

comparativemore ywroken
superlativemost ywroken

Origin of ywroken

From Old English ġeƿrecan, ġewrecan.

Questions about ywroken

What does ywroken mean?
Ywroken means avenged.
What is ywroken the past participle of?
Ywroken is the past participle of wreak.
What part of speech is ywroken?
Ywroken is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ywroken?
Ywroken is pronounced /ɪˈɹəʊkən/ (UK).

Words near ywroken in the dictionary

  1. YWNBARM
  2. YWNBARW
  3. YWNBAW
  4. ywriten
  5. ywriten up
  6. ywroken
  7. ywrought
  8. yy
  9. yyyy
  10. Yzaguirre
  11. Yzaguirres

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ywroken (page history and authors); wreak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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