Crossword clues for wreaked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wreak \Wreak\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wreaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wreaking.] [OE. wrek?? to revenge, punish, drive out, AS. wrecan; akin to OFries. wreka, OS. wrekan to punish, D. wreken to avenge, G. r["a]chen, OHG. rehhan, Icel. reka to drive, to take vengeance, Goth. wrikan to persecute, Lith. vargas distress, vargti to suffer distress, L. urgere to drive, urge, Gr. ? to shut, Skr. ? to turn away. Cf. Urge, Wreck, Wretch.]
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To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic]
He should wreake him on his foes.
--Chaucer.Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself.
--Spenser.Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
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To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
On me let Death wreak all his rage.
--Milton.Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years.
--Macaulay.But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave.
--Bryant.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: wreak)
Usage examples of "wreaked".
Other ships were almost as badly damaged, and the fighters which had wreaked such havoc were already returning to the shadowy carriers hanging at the very edge of detectibility.
But what she'd seen of the ravages wreaked on the planet matched what she remembered of young Polyon de Gras-Waldheim's ruthless personality, and Sev's last gasped words were all the confirmation she needed.
Captain Townsend brought his guns forward and added canister to the havoc being wreaked by the American musketeers, who were now firing from oblique angles into a mass of soldiers caught in the closing trap.
Other ships were almost as badly damaged, and the fighters which had wreaked such havoc were already returning to the shadowy carriers hanging at the very edge of detectability.
His hunched shoulders were eloquent with weariness, and the artful damage his human allies had wreaked on his uniform should help.
No unarmored Bug could survive a direct hit from their weapons, and they wreaked fearsome execution on the enemies streaming past the warheads' blast zone.
The fury the Kliean Atrocity had waked was impossible to exaggerate, and the consequences for the race which had wreaked it would be unimaginable.
The enemy continued to advance, accepting the slaughter she'd wreaked on him without flinching, and a primitive corner of her mind gibbered that nothing should wade into such fire when it couldn't even shoot back.
By any meterstick, no admiral in history - not just human history, but anyone's - had ever wreaked such one-sided havoc on a foe.
No unarmored Bug could survive a direct hit from their weapons, and they wreaked fearsome execution on the enemies streaming past the warhead's blast zone.
Keff, Tall Eyebrow and Narrow Leg watched with dismay and astonishment as civilized engineers and statesmen wreaked destruction with wild eyes and flailing hands.
She frowned, having heard from Zara in detail about the ecological damage wreaked on that planet.
When Jayge had seen her there on the track to Far Cry, surveying the damage her plans had wreaked on his train, he had thought her malevolence unusual.
At the height of it, a tornado had swept through parts of the city, adding nature's havoc to the destruction wreaked by human foes.
The last round of canister, fired from Ball's guns at point-blank range, wreaked havoc on the regiment again.