Sekirov Dictionary

wreak

/ɹiːk/

verb 4
noun 2
forms 9

verb4

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To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
- The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
- She wreaked her anger on his car.
•
(no longer used) To inflict or take vengeance on.
- their woe / Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak / Itself abroad — 1874
•
(no longer used) To take vengeance for.
- Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. — 1600
•
(no longer used) To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.
- The police abused their authority to wreak an innocent.
- The criminal has been wreaked by the Judge to spend a year in prison.

noun2

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(literary, no longer used) Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
- VVhat barbarous mindes for grieuance more than needs, Vnnaturallie seeks wreake vpon their Lord, Their true annointed Prince, their lawfull king: — 1593
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(literary, no longer used) Punishment; retribution; payback.
- Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment; for, an thou do not thus, I will require it of thee before Almighty Allah. — 1885

forms

wreaked · wroke · wrought · wreaken · wroken · wreaking · wreaketh · wreaks · wreakest

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