wreake

Verb

wreak (third-person singular simple present wreaks, present participle wreaking, simple past wreaked or (nonstandard) wrought or (obsolete) wroke, past participle wreaked or (nonstandard) wrought or (obsolete) wroke or (obsolete) wroken)

1. (transitive) To cause harm; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injure; to let out harm.
   • The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
2. (archaic) To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.
   • The police abused their authority to wreak an innocent.
3. (archaic) To inflict or take vengeance on.
   • their woe / Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak / Itself abroad;1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
4. (archaic) To take vengeance for.
   • Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.1600, [Torquato Tasso], “(please specify |book=1 to 20)”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield...

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