Word Finder - wreaked

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To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; .

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She wreaked her anger on his car.

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To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite.

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The criminal has been wreaked by the Judge to spend a year in prison.

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To inflict or take vengeance on.

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To take vengeance for.

The United Nations has estimated that the havoc wreaked by climate change could create up to 50 million refugees.

Her most prominent alter “Niki” wreaked havoc.

And the Vatican has apologized for the havoc that the Crusades wreaked on the people of the Middle East.

A gang of up to 7 men then wreaked havoc in the bar, throwing chairs and slashing the victim 's face with glass.

The war had wreaked havoc on Europe, decimating its male population and economy.

Kiki didn't have a chance to answer before the wooden door to their prison creaked open.  Rhyn's head spun as he was hauled up and dragged into a well-lit hallway.  Light and shadows wreaked havoc on his sense of place and time until he hit the cool stone floor again.

It was suppressed in an hour's time by the tsar's troops, of whom only one man was mortally wounded; and the horrible vengeance (September - October 1698) which Peter on his return to Russia wreaked upon the captive musketeers was due not to any actual fear of these antiquated warriors, but to his consciousness that behind them stood the reactionary majority of the nation who secretly sympathized with, though they durst not assist, the rebels.

The campaign that followed, after some initial reverses, culminated in the crushing victory of the allies at Leipzig (October 1618, 1813),and was succeeded by the joint invasion of France, during which the German troops wreaked vengeance on the unhappy population for the wrongs and violences of the French rule in Germany.

Meanwhile Osman Digna, who had fled from Kufit to Kassala, wreaked his vengeance upon the unhappy captives at Kassala.

The founder of the dynasty was Alauddin, chief of Ghor, whose vengeance for the cruel death of his brother at the hands of Bahram the Ghaznevide was wreaked in devastating the great city.

Aske and other leaders were tried and executed, and summary vengeance was wreaked on the northern counties, especially on the monasteries.

Below is a famous reconstructed map of what Shoreham is meant to have looked like before the sea wreaked such destruction.

The most destructive hurricane in history, Katrina, followed by another, Rita, has wreaked havoc in the southern States.

But after a short rain break the spinning fingers of Robin Fisher again wreaked havoc.

He could have scored in a minute, and generally wreaked havoc for the rest of the game.

A gang of up to 7 men then wreaked havoc in the bar, throwing chairs and slashing the victim's face with glass.