wreak

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹiːk/    美 /ɹik/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. archaic,literary
    — VVhat barbarous mindes for grieuance more than needs, Vnnaturallie ſeeks wreake vpon their Lord, Their true annointed Prince, their lawfull king:
  2. Punishment; retribution; payback. archaic,literary
    — Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment; for, an thou do not thus, I will require it of thee before Almighty Allah.
动词 v.
  1. To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm. transitive
    — The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
  2. To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. archaic
    — The police abused their authority to wreak an innocent.
  3. To inflict or take vengeance on. archaic
    — their woe / Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak / Itself abroad;
  4. To take vengeance for. archaic
    — Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
  5. Misspelling of reek. alt-of,intransitive,misspelling
    — She wreaked of liquor. She also wreaked of anger, despair and unsatisfied sexuality, all mixed together.

词形变化

wreaks present,singular,third-person wreaking participle,present wreaked past wrought nonstandard,past wroke obsolete,past wreaked participle,past wrought nonstandard,participle,past wroke obsolete,participle,past wroken obsolete,participle,past wreaks plural

词汇关系

衍生词
wreak havoc

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wreken, from Old English wrecan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrekan, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“push, shove, drive, track down”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Dutch wreken, German rächen, Swedish vräka; cognate via PIE with Latin urgēre (English urge), and distantly cognate with English wreck.
词源 2
From Middle English wreke, wrake, Northern Middle English variants of wreche, influenced later by Etymology 1, above. Compare Dutch wraak.
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