reck
Americanverb (used without object)
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to have care, concern, or regard (often followed by of, with, or a clause).
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to take heed.
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Archaic. to be of concern or importance; matter.
It recks not.
verb (used with object)
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to mind or care about (something)
to reck nought
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(usually impersonal) to concern or interest (someone)
Etymology
Origin of reck
before 900; Middle English rekken, Old English reccan; akin to Old Norse roekja to have care, German ( ge ) ruhen to deign
Example Sentences
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But Hedges reck ons without Ry Slaight, a second-class man who stumbles upon the truth and then besieges it for nearly 500 pages, like Grant trying to take Richmond.
From Time Magazine Archive
If then, out of reck lessness, the French people opposed it, what kind of man would I be if with out delay I did not draw the consequences of such a deep fissure?
From Time Magazine Archive
During those fretful days when two Germans and an Irishman bent over maps in the mess hall of Baldonnel Airdrome, little did they reck the possible consequences of their flight.
From Time Magazine Archive
He little knew how soon he would be called upon to reck his own rede.
From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell
"If it please God, and is good for the country," said he, "what reck who were displeased?"
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
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