wreak

Significado (Inglês)

Verb

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

Noun

1. (archaic, literary) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
2. (archaic, literary) Punishment; retribution; payback.

Conceitos

produzir

ser causa de

causar

ocasionar

provocar

mediar

obter

tomar

vingança

acarretar

dar vazão

desabafar

arranjar

revanche

definir

determinar

fazer que alguém decida

fixar

Sinônimos

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

Traduções

verursachen

auslassen

causar

aanrichten

provocar

déterminer

zufügen

stichten

veranlassen

bewirken

causare

antun

ξεθυμαίνω

causer

bereiten

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ɹiːk/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Herdado de inglês médio: wreken

Herdado de inglês arcaico: wrecan

Cognato com holandês: wreken

Cognato com alemão: rächen

Cognato com sueco: vräka

Cognato com latim: urgeō

Cognato com inglês: urge

Cognato com inglês: wreck

Herdado de inglês médio: wreke

Cognato com holandês: 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.