Avenge vs Bewreke - What's the difference?
avenge | bewreke |
To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
* Milton
(obsolete) To take vengeance.
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(archaic) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
* Bishop Hall
(obsolete) To wreak, avenge, revenge.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between avenge and bewreke
is that avenge is (obsolete) to take vengeance while bewreke is (obsolete) to wreak, avenge, revenge.As verbs the difference between avenge and bewreke
is that avenge is to take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer while bewreke is (obsolete) to wreak, avenge, revenge.As a noun avenge
is a vengeance; a revenge.avenge
English
Verb
- to avenge the murder of his brother
- Avenge , O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones / Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.
- Thou shalt not avenge , nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
- thy judgment in avenging thine enemies
Synonyms
* (take vengeance) bewreak, get back at, retaliate, take revenge * (treat revengefully) spite * See alsoAnagrams
*bewreke
English
(Webster 1913)Alternative forms
* bewreakVerb
- J wole me so off hym bewreke, þat al þe world þeroff schal speke. — Richard Coeur de Lion