Bewreak vs Bebreak - What's the difference?
bewreak | bebreak |
(obsolete) To avenge; revenge.
To give vent in action to (incensed feelings).
(ambitransitive) To break to pieces; break completely; shatter; destroy.
*1678 , Nicolas Caussin, Hawkins, The Holy Court in Five Tomes :
*2008 , Dr Yonah Alexander, Milton M. Hoenig, The New Iranian Leadership :
*2011 , Marie Loughlin, Sandra Bell, Patricia Brace, The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose :
As verbs the difference between bewreak and bebreak
is that bewreak is (obsolete) to avenge; revenge while bebreak is (ambitransitive) to break to pieces; break completely; shatter; destroy.bewreak
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Alternative forms
* bewrekeVerb
(en verb)- Gemoted warriours to bewrecke her bedde'' — Thomas Chatterton, ''The Rowley Poems , 1778
bebreak
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Verb
- This miserable snare staied all his good purposes, and needs must bebreak them, to put this great Soul into full liberty.
- Additionally all rulings in the revolutionary and clerical courts are final and cannot bebreak ; overturned.
- Did in my hall in sight of least and most Bebreak his staff, my household office stay, Bad each make shift, and rode himself away.