| wreak | (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, play, work |
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| wreath | (noun) flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes | Synonyms: chaplet, coronal, garland, lei |
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| wreathe | (verb) form into a wreath | Synonyms: wind |
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| (verb) decorate or deck with wreaths | - |
| (verb) move with slow, sinuous movements | - |
| wreck | (noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea | - |
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| (noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) | Synonyms: crash |
| (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea | Synonyms: shipwreck |
| (noun) something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation | - |
| (verb) smash or break forcefully | Synonyms: bust up, wrack |
| wreckage | (noun) the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked | - |
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| wrecked | (adjective) destroyed in an accident | - |
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| wrecker | (noun) a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) | Synonyms: tow car, tow truck |
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| (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur |
| (noun) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job | - |
| wreckfish | (noun) brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks | Synonyms: Polyprion americanus, stone bass |
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| wrecking | (noun) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined | Synonyms: laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining |
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| (noun) the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled | Synonyms: razing |
| wren | (noun) any of several small active brown birds of the Northern Hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects | Synonyms: jenny wren |
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| wrench | (noun) a hand tool that is used to hold or twist a nut or bolt | Synonyms: spanner |
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| (noun) a jerky pulling movement | Synonyms: twist |
| (noun) a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments | Synonyms: pull, twist |
| (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, twist, wrick |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: twist |
| (verb) twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish | Synonyms: wring |
| (verb) make a sudden twisting motion | - |
| wrenching | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: racking |
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| wrest | (verb) obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically | - |
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| wrester | (noun) someone who obtains something by pulling it violently with twisting movements | - |
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| wrestle | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestling |
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| (verb) engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate | - |
| (verb) combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force | - |
| (verb) engage in a wrestling match | - |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, twist, worm, wriggle, writhe |
| wrestler | (noun) combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground | Synonyms: grappler, matman |
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| wrestling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, rassling |
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| (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle |
| wretch | (noun) someone you feel sorry for | Synonyms: poor devil |
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| (noun) performs some wicked deed | - |
| wretched | (adjective) morally reprehensible | Synonyms: despicable, slimy, ugly, unworthy, vile, worthless |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, miserable, woeful |
| (adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: miserable |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor |
| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: miserable, suffering |
| wretchedly | (adverb) in a wretched manner | - |
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| wretchedness | (noun) the quality of being poor and inferior and sorry | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, misery |
| (noun) the character of being uncomfortable and unpleasant | - |