wreak
wreak is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 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.
- 3.Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- anger
- animus
- avenge
- avengeance
- avengement
- avenger
- bear
- blood
- bone
- breast
- breathe
- crow
- day
- death
- est
- feeling
- feud
- for
- green
- harbor
- have
- high
- hip
- immitigable
- implacability
- implacable
- inexorable
- infidel
- keep
- malevolence
- malice
- noble
- now
- pick
- pickle
- pitiless
- pluck
- rancor
- rancorous
- rankle
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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