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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Wreak

Wreak (wreak)
v. i.(?)
Wreak
  1. To reck; to care.
    [Obs.] Shak.

Wreak

Wreak (wreak)
v. t.(?)
Wreak
[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
  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.


Wreak

Wreak (wreak)
n.
Wreak
  1. Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment.
    [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.













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