wrake
Meaning
Noun
- Suffering which comes as a result of vengeance or retribution.
Origin
- From Middle English wrake ("vengeance, persecution, injury"), from Old English wracu ("revenge, persecution, misery, etc."), from Proto-Germanic *wrakล, likely related to *wrฤkล. Cognate with Gothic ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐บ๐ฐ ("persecution"), Middle Low German wrake and Middle Dutch wrake.
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