Wreakest vs Weakest - What's the difference?
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(archaic) (wreak)
To cause, inflict or let out, especially if causing harm or injury.
* Macaulay
(archaic) To inflict or take vengeance on.
* 1874 ,
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(archaic) To take vengeance for.
* Fairfax
(archaic, literary) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
* 1903 , George Chapman, Richard Herne Shepherd, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Works of George Chapman :
* 2003 , John Foxe, John Cumming, Book of Martyrs and the Acts and Monuments of the Church :
* 2006 , The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night - Volume 2 - Page 188:
(archaic, literary) Punishment; retribution; payback.
* 1885': Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her '''wreak on me this moment — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 19
(weak) Most weak.
Lacking in force (usually strength) or ability.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
Unable to sustain a great weight, pressure, or strain.
Unable to withstand temptation, urgency, persuasion, etc.; easily impressed, moved, or overcome; accessible; vulnerable.
* Joseph Addison, The Fair Petinent Act I, scene I:
Dilute, lacking in taste or potency.
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# (Germanic languages, of verbs) Regular in inflection, lacking vowel changes and having a past tense with -d- or -t-.
# (Germanic languages, of nouns) Showing less distinct grammatical endings.
# (Germanic languages, of adjectives) Definite in meaning, often used with a definite article or similar word.
(physics) One of the four fundamental forces associated with nuclear decay.
(slang) Bad or uncool.
(mathematics, logic) Having a narrow range of logical consequences; narrowly applicable. (Often contrasted with a statement which implies it.)
Resulting from, or indicating, lack of judgment, discernment, or firmness; unwise; hence, foolish.
* Milton
Not having power to convince; not supported by force of reason or truth; unsustained.
* Milton
Lacking in vigour or expression.
Not prevalent or effective, or not felt to be prevalent; not potent; feeble.
* Shakespeare
(stock exchange) Tending towards lower prices.
As a verb wreakest
is archaic second-person singular of wreak.As an adjective weakest is
superlative of weak Most weak.wreakest
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Verb
(head)wreak
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Etymology 1
(etyl) wrecan, from (etyl) ; cognate via PIE with Latin urgere (English urge), and distantly cognate to English wreck.Verb
- The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
- She wreaked her anger on his car.
- Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years.
- ''their woe
- ''Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak
- ''Itself abroad;
- Kill the foul thief, and wreak me for my son.
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- Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
Usage notes
The verb wreak'' is generally used in the form “wreak ''damage or harm of some sort'' (on ''something )”, and is often used in the set phrase wreak havoc, though “wreak damage”, “wreak destruction”, and “wreak revenge” are also common. Not to be confused with wreck, with similar meaning of destruction and similar etymological roots; common confusion in misspelling wreck havoc. It has become common to use wrought, the original past tense and participle for work, as the past tense and past participle for wreak'', as in ''wrought havoc'' (i.e. ''worked havoc'' for ''wreaked havoc''), due both to the fact that the weak form ''worked'' has edged out ''wrought'' from its former role almost entirely (except as an adjective referring usually to hand-worked metal goods), and via confusion from the ''wr-'' beginning both ''wreak'' and ''wrought , and probably by analogy with seek).Derived terms
* wreak havocEtymology 2
From (etyl) wreke, wrake, Northern Middle English variants of wreche, influenced later by Etymology 1, above. Compare (etyl) wraak.Noun
(en noun)- However, no thought touch'd Minerva's mind, That any one should escape his wreak design'd.
- For three causes Duke William entered this land to subdue Harold. One was, for that it was to him given by King Edward his nephew. The second was, to take wreak for the cruel murder of his nephew Alfred, King Edward's brother, and of the Normans, which deed he ascribed chiefly to Harold.
- Would that before my death I might but see my son The empery in my stead over the people hold And rush upon his foes and take on them his wreak , At push of sword and pike, in fury uncontrolled.
References
Anagrams
* English irregular verbsweakest
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Adjective
(head)Derived terms
* weakest linkweak
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Adjective
(er)- a poor, infirm, weak , and despised old man
- weak with hunger, mad with love
- a weak''' timber; a '''weak rope
- weak''' resolutions; '''weak virtue
- Guard thy heart / On this weak side, where most our nature fails.
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- If evil thence ensue, / She first his weak indulgence will accuse.
- The prosecution advanced a weak case.
- convinced of his weak arguing
- a weak''' sentence; a '''weak style
- weak prayers
- a weak market