Wreaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wreak
Wreak (v. t.) To revenge; to avenge.
Wreak (v. t.) To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
Wreak (v. t.) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
Wreaken () p. p. of Wreak.
Wreaker (n.) Avenger.
Wreakful (a.) Revengeful; angry; furious.
Wreakless (a.) Unrevengeful; weak.
Wreaths (pl. ) of Wreath
Wreath (n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.
Wreath (n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.
Wreath (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.
Wreathed (imp.) of Wreathe
Wreathed (p. p.) of Wreathe
Wreathen (Archaic) of Wreathe
Wreathing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wreathe
Wreathe (n.) To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
Wreathe (n.) To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine.
Wreathe (n.) To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
Wreathe (n.) To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.
Wreathe (v. i.) To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees.
Wreathen (a.) Twisted; made into a wreath.
Wreathless (a.) Destitute of a wreath.
Wreath-shell (n.) A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
Wreathy (a.) Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths.
Wrecche (n.) A wretch.
Wrecche (a.) Wretched.
Wreche (n.) Wreak.
Wreck (v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
Wreck (v. t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
Wreck (v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
Wreck (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
Wreck (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
Wrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Wreck
Wrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wreck
Wreck (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
Wreckage (n.) The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
Wreckage (n.) That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Wrecker (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
Wrecker (n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.
Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Wreckfish (n.) A stone bass.
Wreckful (a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v.
Wreck-master (n.) A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck.
Wreke (v. t.) Alt. of Wreeke
Wreeke (v. t.) See 2d Wreak.
Wren (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Troglodytes and numerous allied of the family Troglodytidae.
Wren (n.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds more or less resembling the true wrens in size and habits.
Wrench (v. t.) Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
Wrench (v. t.) A violent twist, or a pull with twisting.
Wrench (v. t.) A sprain; an injury by twisting, as in a joint.
Wrench (v. t.) Means; contrivance.
Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes.
Wrench (v. t.) The system made up of a force and a couple of forces in a plane perpendicular to that force. Any number of forces acting at any points upon a rigid body may be compounded so as to be equivalent to a wrench.
Wrenched (imp. & p. p.) of Wrench
Wrenching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrench
Wrench (n.) To pull with a twist; to wrest, twist, or force by violence.
Wrench (n.) To strain; to sprain; hence, to distort; to pervert.
Wrested (imp. & p. p.) of Wrest
Wresting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrest
Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting.
Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
Wrest (v. t.) To tune with a wrest, or key.
Wrest (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion.
Wrest (n.) Active or moving power.
Wrest (n.) A key to tune a stringed instrument of music.
Wrest (n.) A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined.
Wrester (n.) One who wrests.
Wrestled (imp. & p. p.) of Wrestle
Wrestling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrestle
Wrestle (v. t.) To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
Wrestle (v. t.) Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend.
Wrestle (v. t.) To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling.
Wrestle (n.) A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle.
Wrestler (n.) One who wrestles; one who is skillful in wrestling.
Wretch (v. t.) A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
Wretch (v. t.) One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
Wretched (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting.
Wretched (a.) Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable; as, a wretched poem; a wretched cabin.
Wretched (a.) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
Wretchedly (adv.) In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.
Wretchedness (n.) The quality or state of being wretched; utter misery.
Wretchedness (n.) A wretched object; anything despicably.
Wretchful (a.) Wretched.
Wretchless (a.) Reckless; hence, disregarded.
Wrey (v. t.) See Wray.
Wrie (a. & v.) See Wry.
Wrig (v. i.) To wriggle.
Wriggled (imp. & p. p.) of Wriggle
Wriggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wriggle
Wriggle (v. i.) To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
Wriggle (v. t.) To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.
Wriggle (a.) Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.
Wriggler (n.) One who, or that which, wriggles.