Thesaurus: wreak

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1. v. i. To reck; to care.
2. v. t. To revenge; to avenge.
3. v. t. To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
4. v. t. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
5. v. cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
6. To reck; to care. [Obs.] Shak. 1. 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. 2. 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. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.
7. To reck; to care. [Obs.] Shak.
8. v:100 v cause to happen or to occur as a consequence