Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To wreak; take vengeance on; avenge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To avenge.
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- verb obsolete To
avenge , take vengeance on.
Etymologies
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Old English awrecan, corresponding to a- + wreak.
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Examples
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Also an hound is wrathful and malicious, so that for to awreak himself, he biteth oft the stone that is thrown to him: and biteth the stone with great woodness, that he breaketh his own teeth, and grieveth not the stone, but his own teeth full sore.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902
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