WREAK
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Wreak (?), v. i. To reck; to care. [Obs.] Shak.
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Wreak (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wreaked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wreaking.] [OE. wrek&unr_;&unr_; to revenge, punish, drive out, AS. wrecan; akin to OFries. wreka, OS. wrekan to punish, D. wreken to avenge, G. r&ä;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. &unr_; to shut, Skr. &unr_; to turn away. Cf. Urge, Wreck, Wretch.]
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1. To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic]
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He should wreake him on his foes.
Chaucer.
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Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself.
Spenser.
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Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
Fairfax.
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2. To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
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On me let Death wreak all his rage.
Milton.
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Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years.
Macaulay.
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But gather all thy powers,
And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave.
Bryant.
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Wreak, n. [Cf. AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery. See Wreak, v. t.] Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.
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