bewreke
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English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English bewreken, equivalent to be- + wreak. Compare Old English bewrecan (“to drive away, exile, banish”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]bewreke (third-person singular simple present bewrekes, present participle bewreking, simple past bewreked or bewroke, past participle bewreked or bewroken)
- (transitive, obsolete) To wreak, avenge, revenge.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bewreke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)