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Bewreck vs Bewreak - What's the difference?

bewreck | bewreak |

As verbs the difference between bewreck and bewreak

is that bewreck is (dialectal) to wreck completely; ruin; destroy while bewreak is (obsolete) to avenge; revenge.

bewreck

English

Verb

  • (dialectal) To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
  • * The Mirror for Magistrates
    • Yet was I, or I parted thence, bewreckt .

    bewreak

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bewreke

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To avenge; revenge.
    • Gemoted warriours to bewrecke her bedde'' — Thomas Chatterton, ''The Rowley Poems , 1778
  • To give vent in action to (incensed feelings).