单词	wretch
释义	wretchwretch /retʃ/ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINwretch Origin: Old English wrecca ‘person driven out’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES That miserable little wretch would lie to anyone. What would happen to this poor wretch when we let her go? EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Besides, Mr. Williams, who would waste themselves on such a miserable wretch? He was a lonely, miserable wretch. I marvel who these wretches could be, moving in such numbers, and so heavily armed. Ten thousand wretches wanted to be Byron and ended as wretches, still wanting. The sermon he found surprisingly proper, but Adams was repelled to see poor wretches fingering their prayer beads. Then as now, judges felt more at ease burning some poor wretch if they had a confession in hand. Unhappy wretch that I am, I left my native fireside and alienated my home to seek strange truths in undiscovered lands. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► poor · No, but the other poor wretch did, and the ferryman remembers when.· Then as now, judges felt more at ease burning some poor wretch if they had a confession in hand.· But who gets these poor wretches with child?· The sermon he found surprisingly proper, but Adams was repelled to see poor wretches fingering their prayer beads.· High in the air, he had had an unimpeded view of them, poor wretches, too terrified even to pray.· A love letter probably, poor little wretch. 1someone that you feel sorry for:  He was a lonely, miserable wretch.2someone you are annoyed with:  Stop pulling my hair, you wretch!
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