wroken

English

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊkən/
  • Rhymes: -əʊkən

Verb

wroken

  1. (obsolete) past participle of wreak
    • Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde
      The noyse up roos, whan it was first aspyed,
      Thorugh al the toun, and generally was spoken,
      That Calkas traytor fled was, and allyed
      With hem of Grece; and casten to ben wroken
      On him that falsly hadde his feith so broken; […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 wroken in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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