wreak

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vt. 发泄(怒火), 报仇 [法] 报仇, 报复, 施

发音

UK /ɹiːk/
US /ɹik/

词形变化

wreaks 复数 wreaked wreaken wreakest wreaketh wreaking wreaks 三单 wreaks wroke wroken ywroken wreaking 现在分词 wrought wreaked 过去式 wrought 过去式 wroke 过去式 wreaked 过去分词 wrought 过去分词 wroke 过去分词 wroken 过去式 wroken 过去分词

别名

wreake

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.

    古体 文学
  2. 2.

    Punishment; retribution; payback.

    古体 文学
v.
  1. 1.

    To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.

    造成

    及物

    The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.

    She wreaked her anger on his car.

  2. 2.

    To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.

    古体

    The police abused their authority to wreak an innocent.

    The criminal has been wreaked by the Judge to spend a year in prison.

  3. 3.

    To inflict or take vengeance on.

    古体
  4. 4.

    To take vengeance for.

    古体
  5. 5.

    Misspelling of reek.

    不及物

词汇关系

动词

同义词 4

work bring play make for

上位词 2

make create

下位词 1

follow

近义相关 2

work act

相关短语

wreak havoc

词源

From Middle English wreke, wrake, Northern Middle English variants of wreche, influenced later by Etymology 1, above. Compare Dutch wraak.

来源：wiktionary