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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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}.] 
  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.




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