Wreak

Verb

 * 1)  To cause, inflict or let out, especially if causing harm or injury.
 * The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
 * She wreaked her anger on his car.
 * 1)  To inflict or take vengeance on.
 * 2) * 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
 * ''their woe
 * ''Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak
 * ''Itself abroad;
 * 1) * 1856-1885 — Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette
 * Kill the foul thief, and wreak me for my son.

Derived terms

 * wreak havoc

Noun

 * 1)  Punishment; retribution, revenge.
 * 2) * 1885: Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 19

Thesaurus
accomplish, achieve, bring, bring about, bring off, bring to pass, bring upon, commit, do, do to, effect, effectuate, force, go and do, impose, inflict, make, pay, perpetrate, produce, pull off, realize, render, take and do, up and do, visit, visit upon, wreck

Etymology 1
wrecan:, from, from root , from. Cognate via Proto-Germanic with Dutch wreken:, German rächen:, Swedish vräka:; cognate via PIE with Latin urgere: (English urge:), and distantly cognate to English wreck:.

Etymology 2
A Northern variant of wreche:, influenced later by Etymology 1, above.

Verb

 * Finnish: aiheuttaa (of havoc), kohdistaa (of anger)
 * German: ,


 * Romanian: a cauza, provoca, varsa nervii


 * Finnish: kurittaa


 * German:

Anagrams

 * waker, wrake