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, n. [Cf. AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery. See Wreak, v. t.]

Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.

Wreak"en (?), obs. p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.

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