English to afrikaans meaning of

Die woordeboekdefinisie van "gewreek" is: verlede tyd en verlede deelwoord van wraak, wat beteken om wraak te neem vir 'n oortreding of besering wat deur jouself of 'n ander persoon gely is. Met ander woorde, as iemand gewreek is, beteken dit dat een of ander vorm van straf of vergelding uitgevoer is teen die persoon of groep wat skade of besering aan jouself of 'n ander veroorsaak het.

Sentence Examples

  1. A man has carried off your mistress, a man has seduced your wife, a man has dishonored your daughter he has rendered the whole life of one who had the right to expect from Heaven that portion of happiness God has promised to everyone of his creatures, an existence of misery and infamy and you think you are avenged because you send a ball through the head, or pass a sword through the breast, of that man who has planted madness in your brain, and despair in your heart.
  2. Weariness brought Don Quixote to a halt, and more enraged than avenged he sat down on the road to wait until Sancho, Rocinante and Dapple came up.
  3. The final act, to count himself and Ve avenged against Odlingar and Niflungar alike, in the only manner he was ever like to achieve.
  4. Avenged Sevenfold played on a laptop in the far corner.
  5. No doubt it would have been better but I should not be avenged, nor the honour of my husband vindicated, should he find so clear and easy an escape from the strait into which his depravity has led him.
  6. You shall be avenged in turn for not one of them but shall minister to your needs.
  7. I was shown quite a long list of verses which were composed by some young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them.
  8. The sounds of the battle were over, and they had fed fat their ancient grudge, and had avenged their recent quarrel with the Mengwe, by the destruction of a whole community.