wreak

Significado (English)

Verb

1. To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
2. To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.
3. To inflict or take vengeance on.
4. To take vengeance for.
5. Misspelling of reek.

Noun

1. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
2. Punishment; retribution; payback.

Conceptos

causar

provocar

maquinar

dar lugar a

ocasionar

instigar

producir

tomar

traer

venganza

volcar

desquite

infligir

revancha

vengarse

agarrar

inflingir

coger

determinar

mediar

procurar

represalia

sembrar

🌱

Synonyms

inflict

cause

give rise to

play

pose

bring

provoke

do

result in

cause to take place

make for

work

stage

hold

organize

fix

force

generate

get

give

have

implement

impose

induce

manufacture

move

necessitate

output

pall

pay

💸

perform

perpetrate

persuade

procure

produce

provide

purvey

put out

put through

realise

reprisal

retaliation

retribution

return

revenge

seize

set

settle

set up

supply

take

talion

talk round

transact

turn out

utter

vengeance

yield

act as agent

act as go-between

ultion

revengement

avenge

self-redress

bear

🐻

bring out

bring round

carry

carry out

decide

deliver

derive

determine

enact

enforce

execute

fetch

fine

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɹiːk/

Etimología (English)

Inherited from inglés medio: wreken

Inherited from inglés antiguo: wrecan

Cognate with neerlandés: wreken

Cognate with alemán: rächen

Cognate with sueco: vräka

Cognate with latín: urgeō

Cognate with inglés: urge

Cognate with inglés: wreck

Inherited from inglés medio: wreke

Cognate with neerlandés: wraak

In summary

From Middle English wreken, from Old English wrecan, from Proto-West Germanic *wrekan, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“push, shove, drive, track down”). Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Dutch wreken, German rächen, Swedish vräka; cognate via PIE with Latin urgēre (English urge), and distantly cognate with English wreck.