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• The earthquake wreaked havoc in the city.
• She wreaked her anger on his car.
• Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years.
• their woe
• Broods maddening inwardly and scorns to wreak
• Itself abroad;
• Kill the foul thief, and wreak me for my son.
• At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, …
• Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
• However, no thought touch'd Minerva's mind, That any one should escape his wreak design'd.
• For three causes Duke William entered this land to subdue Harold. One was, for that it was to him given by King Edward his nephew. The second was, to take wreak for the cruel murder of his nephew Alfred, King Edward's brother, and of the Normans, which deed he ascribed chiefly to Harold.
• Would that before my death I might but see my son The empery in my stead over the people hold And rush upon his foes and take on them his wreak, At push of sword and pike, in fury uncontrolled.
• 1885: Of a surety none murdered the damsel but I; take her wreak on me this moment — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 19
• All of this commotion is wreaking havoc in the office.