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WREAK
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they wreak ... he / she / it wreaks
Past simple: wreaked
Past participle: wreaked
-ing form: wreaking
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
Example:
The rain brought relief to the drought-stricken area
Synonyms:
bring; make for; play; work; wreak
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "wreak" is one way to...):
create; make (make or cause to be or to become)
Verb group:
act; work (have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples:
He might remain in Switzerland and wreak his vengeance on my relatives.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Here was some thing, not wood nor iron, upon which to wreak his hate.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He was no fool himself, and whatever vengeance he desired to wreak, he could wait until he caught White Fang alone.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But now Lip-lip was his dog, and he proceeded to wreak his vengeance on him by putting him at the end of the longest rope.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
He revelled in the vengeance he wreaked upon his kind.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
After the first two or three strange dogs had been downed and destroyed, the white men hustled their own animals back on board and wreaked savage vengeance on the offenders.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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