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.
--Fairfax. -
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
n. The act by which something is wreaked. vb. (present participle of wreak English)
Usage examples of "wreaking".
They drop cluster bombs amongst the enemy's infantry and Scout-class units, wreaking havoc as I rush toward the Adero River, which I must cross.
It was not even a Wreaking, merely a serenity so deep that it left nothing for the attention to touch on unless the Adept willed it.
She wondered how amused they would have been if they knew her true Wreaking here.
We don't know enough about the Old people's wreaking to know their curses from their blessings.
I spent all those years cultivating the wreaking ability - and then nothing came up.
But it's a place of the Old wreaking, which was always Flame-based, and damned if I'm not going to try tapping it.
The ship's doctor had been forced to sedate him to keep him from wreaking vengeance on the battered guards, two of whom were still unconscious.
Hauer couldn't be left free to continue wreaking his destruction on the world.
Her mother and Guy had created a tangle, twelve years ago, that was still wreaking destruction.
She found herself frantically concentrating on the details of his appearance while she tried to deal with the havoc he was wreaking on her senses, all without saying a word.
The last thing I needed was for him to dash off in some random direction on our way to the bridge, wreaking havoc in the galley, or hiding in some storeroom till Streakers/as blasted to smithereens"Won't you tell me what it's all about?
In fact, the waves of disruption that Sage Koolhanjust described must have been even worse in those earlier episodes, wreaking untold havoc and ruin.
Wielding the huge axe Matt Sören had found for him in the Paras Derval armory, he had roared into battle, outpacing even Diarmuid and wreaking violent havoc among the wolves while screaming at the top of his lungs.
Tegid terminated his run by crashing into a table on the far side of the ring, wreaking ruin among the spectators and almost unseating his rider.
He shut his eyes for long moments, fighting an internal battle that was wreaking visible havoc.