wrake

wrake (plural wrakes) (obsolete) Suffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.

发音

/ɹeɪk/
/ɹeɪ̯kʰ/

词形变化

wrakes 复数 wrakes 三单 wraking 现在分词 wraked 过去式 wraked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Wrecked state or condition; destruction, ruin.

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  2. 2.

    Suffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.

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  3. 1.

    Obsolete form of wrack.

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v.
  1. 1.

    Obsolete form of wrack.

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词源

From Middle English wrake (“vengeance, persecution, injury”), from Old English wracu (“revenge, persecution, misery, etc.”), from Proto-Germanic *wrakō, likely related to *wrēkō (“persecution, revenge, vengeance”). Cognate with Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰 (wraka, “persecution”), Middle Low German wrake and Middle Dutch wrake.

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