bewreke

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English bewreken, equivalent to be- +‎ wreak. Compare Old English bewrecan (“to drive away, exile, banish”).

Verb

bewreke (third-person singular simple present bewrekes, present participle bewreking, simple past and past participle bewreked)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To wreak, avenge, revenge.
    • Richard Coeur de Lion
      J wole me so off hym bewreke, þat al þe world þeroff schal speke.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bewreke in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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