Wretch: Definition and part of speech

Wretch

  1. v. t. One sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person; a vile knave; as, a profligate wretch.
  2. v. t. A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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