Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To reveal; disclose.
  • To betray.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To reveal; to disclose.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To denounce (a person).
  • verb obsolete To reveal (a secret).
  • verb obsolete To betray.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Middle English wreien, wraien, wrayen ("to show, make known, accuse"), from Old English wrēġan ("to urge, incite, stir up, accuse, impeach"), from Proto-Germanic *wrōgijanan. Akin to Dutch wroegen, German rügen, Swedish röja.

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Examples

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