Word.ws English Dictionary

wreakest

wreakest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of wreak.

Meaning of wreak

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...

See all 6 meanings of wreak

Origin of wreakest

wreak + -est

Questions about wreakest

What is wreakest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wreakest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of wreak.

Words near wreakest in the dictionary

  1. wreaked havoc
  2. wreaken
  3. wreaker
  4. wreakers
  5. wreakes
  6. wreakest
  7. wreaketh
  8. wreakful
  9. wreaking
  10. wreaking havoc
  11. wreakings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wreakest (page history and authors); wreak (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wreakest.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wreakest. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.