What's the difference between wrath and wreath?

Wrath


Definition:

  • (a.) Violent anger; vehement exasperation; indignation; rage; fury; ire.
  • (a.) The effects of anger or indignation; the just punishment of an offense or a crime.
  • (a.) See Wroth.
  • (v. t.) To anger; to enrage; -- also used impersonally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our members have had to bear the brunt of the passengers’ wrath, because the senior executives and staff went running for cover,” he said.
  • (2) "I take complete responsibility and offer nothing but love and contrition and I hope that now Jonathan and the BBC will endure less forensic wrath.
  • (3) Revolutionary forces also distributed leaflets at checkpoints leading into the city that read, "Dear Muslims, avoid God's wrath.
  • (4) We believe that there is a connection between those who traffic the children to Italy and those who employ them at the markets, so we are planning an investigation to establish these links.” The fear of their families facing the wrath of the traffickers is driving some to find quicker ways of repaying their debt.
  • (5) That means transcending their own need for status and recognition, facing the wrath of those seeking to maintain the status quo and doing what they know in their hearts to be right.
  • (6) Addressing the crowd, communist party leader Aleka Papariga warned that whatever government emerged in the coming days would face the wrath of the people if it dared to pass more belt-tightening measures.
  • (7) This would blow their chance to dismantle the signature policy achievement of the Obama presidency, leaving them facing the wrath of constituents and potential trouble at the ballot box.
  • (8) Sandwood Bay in Scotland Photograph: Alamy Am Buachaille, a rocky sea stack, stood guard-like to one side, the giant grey slabs which cut into the sea were bathed in frothing waves, and the dim glow of the Cape Wrath lighthouse sent out a muted white beam beyond the cliffs to my right.
  • (9) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
  • (10) It’s a part of the American epic immortalised in John Steinbeck’s bitter novel, The Grapes of Wrath .
  • (11) Nick Clegg's MPs are already nervous about the wrath of voters and party members who will protest that they didn't support the Lib Dems for this.
  • (12) A leading Greek bishop has warned lawmakers that they risk incurring the wrath of God – and will be excommunicated – if they vote in favour of legalising same-sex partnerships.
  • (13) On the way back, in his speech to the Commons, he had to appease the wrath of Nick Clegg and show his government's credentials to Europe.
  • (14) 10.50am GMT Pro-Moris rally Morsi has incurred the wrath of many lawyers - some of whom are striking - by issuing the decree granting him widespread powers and simultaneously curbing those of the judiciary.
  • (15) cricketed Gatsby is one of the great books of the 20th century but you can't give just one novel the distinction of " Great American novel " because at different points in time that could be applied to many different books, including To Kill A Mockingbird , Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath ; Gatsby isn't even Fitzgerald's best work: go read This Side of Paradise and Tender is the Night.
  • (16) This could go back to being desert, the way it was before irrigation.” Many farmers are descendants of migrants who fled here to escape the 1930s dust bowl, a trauma immortalised in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.
  • (17) He directed the paper through choppy waters in its relationship with the Bush administration, earning the then president's wrath with a steady stream of scoops on the US government's use of phone tapping and torture.
  • (18) In normal circumstances, this would incur the wrath of those papers.
  • (19) David Cameron will risk the wrath of the drinks industry and free marketeers today by announcing his government is to introduce legislation setting a minimum alcohol price of 40p a unit in England – enough to add £135 to the annual bill of a heavy drinker.
  • (20) "No one should die in sin … This must be taken into consideration: we cannot stop Allah's wrath."

Wreath


Definition:

  • (n.) Something twisted, intertwined, or curled; as, a wreath of smoke; a wreath of flowers.
  • (n.) A garland; a chaplet, esp. one given to a victor.
  • (n.) An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest (see Illust. of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fully developed wreath around the Graafian follicle consists of sinusoidal capillaries.
  • (2) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel , visited Moscow the day after the parade to lay a wreath at a war memorial, but she criticised Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Crimea in a joint press conference with Putin.
  • (3) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
  • (4) Following the Last Post, wreaths will be laid and the Act of Remembrance will finish with a royal salute.
  • (5) The proper vascular pattern of the rat ovarian follicle starts as a basket-like wreath of fine capillaries around the primary follicle.
  • (6) Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) Messages on the wreaths laid by David Cameron and Ed Miliband.
  • (7) Festival organisers are targeting the disposable bottle – one of the most conspicuous symbols of the throwaway culture that each year leaves the 900-acre Somerset site wreathed in plastic, with an estimated one million plastic bottles being used during the festival.
  • (8) Families will have the opportunity to lay floral wreaths.
  • (9) Francis, an Argentinian whose own grandparents emigrated from Italy, cast a wreath of flowers in the papal colours of yellow and white on to the water in commemoration of those who have died.
  • (10) The Labour leader came under immediate and intense fire on social media for appearing not to bow as deeply as other political leaders during his wreath-laying at the Whitehall war memorial.
  • (11) Within an hour of arriving in Seoul on Friday Obama laid a wreath at a war memorial honouring Americans killed in the Korean war.
  • (12) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
  • (13) She laid a wreath at the memorial, officially dedicated only recently, to honour their memory.
  • (14) Who knows, perhaps soon the concealed British penises of yesteryear might become proudly erect and engirdled with daisy chains wreathed by ardent lady lovers – just like in the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover , the ban on which had been overturned in 1960.
  • (15) Unlike some museum reshuffles, news of Nairne's departure came wreathed in expressions of regret and praise for his term at the gallery, which has been described as "exemplary".
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turkish soldiers rehearse a wreath-laying ceremony at the Lone Pine monument to Australian soldiers killed during the Gallipoli campaign, near Eceabat, Turkey.
  • (17) In Ireland, the taoiseach, Enda Kenny, travelled north of the border to join the Northern Ireland secretary, Theresa Villiers, in laying wreaths at the memorial in Enniskillen, in the heart of the town ripped apart by an IRA bomb during a Remembrance ceremony 26 years ago, killing 11 people.
  • (18) The sub-basal dense plate (SDP) with a wreath of anchoring filaments remained on the epidermal side of the split adjacent to the hemidesmosomal part of the plasma membrane of basal keratinocytes.
  • (19) The music stops, then the crowd gathers round as a woman in traditional dress places a large wreath on a grave.
  • (20) Immaculately dressed, wreathed in smoke, he sees through everyone and everything: “I am nobody’s fool.” His stature is in all senses overwhelming.