chaplet, festoon, crown.
wreck, n. desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris,
derelict.
wreck, v. demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo,
raze.
wrest, v. wrench, wring, extort; distort, pervert, garble, falsify,
misconstrue.
wretch, n. outcast, pariah, pilgarlic, vagabond, knave, rogue,
scoundrel, caitiff, miscreant, scapegrace, villain, rascal, renegade,
reprobate, rake, scullion, poltroon, varlet, ronion, libertine,
blackguard, cullion, bezonian.
wretched, a. miserable, unhappy; contemptible, abject, despicable,
paltry.
wring, v. writhe, squeeze, pinch; distort, pervert, wrest, exact,
extort.
wrinkle, n. corrugation, pucker, crease, furrow, rumple, crinkle,
ruck; (Colloq.) notion, fancy, whim, caprice, vagary, freak, whimsey;
pl. crow's feet.
wrinkle, v. rumple, pucker, corrugate, crease, cockle, ruck, crumple.
wrinkled, a. corrugated, rumpled, puckered, cockled, creased, rugous.
wrist, n. carpus. Associated Words: carpal, carpale.
write, v. inscribe, indite; superscribe (write on the top or outside
of anything); subscribe.
writer, n. scribe, scrivener, penman, secretary, amanuensis,
correspondent, essayist, clerk, copyist, author, hack, calligrapher.
writing, n. handwriting, chirography, penmanship, hand, calligraphy;
document, writ, indenture, debenture, certificate, charter, holograph;
inscription, superscription, subscription. Associated Words: graphology,
agraphia, graphomania, _cacoethes scribendi_, cursive, uncial, clerical,
stylus, planchette, scotograph script, literary, cacography.
writing-desk, n. secretary, escritoire.
writing-room, n. scriptorium.
written above. superscript, suprascript.
written under. subscript, subscribed.
wrong, a. immoral, bad, wicked, sinful, evil, improper, criminal,
vicious, unjust, contraband, wrongful, iniquitous, blameworthy,
reprehensible, base, crooked, sinister; erroneous, mistaken, untrue,
false, inaccurate, inexact, incorrect; inappropriate, unsuitable; reverse.
wrong, n. injustice, inequity, oppression, disservice, trespass,
transgression, injury, tort, offense, grievance, detriment; error,
falsity; immorality, vice, iniquity, sin, evil, improbity, guilt,
misdoing, malpractice, offense, delinquency, peccancy, dereliction,
mischief, obliquity, misdemeanor.--adv. amiss, erroneously.
wrong, v. cheat, damnify, defraud, maltreat, abuse.
wrong-doer, n. sinner, criminal, culprit, delinquent, offender,
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