English-Thai Dictionary

wreak

VT ทำให้เกิด ความเสียหาย  ทำให้เกิด ความหายนะ  tam-hai-koed-kwam-sia-hai

 

wreak

VT แก้แค้น  แสดง ความ มุ่งร้าย  kwa-kan

 

wreak havoc with

IDM ทำลาย  เป็นสาเหตุ ของ ปัญหา  tam-lai

 

wreak on

PHRV แก้แค้น  แก้เผ็ด  get even kea-kan

 

wreak upon

PHRV แก้แค้น  แก้เผ็ด  get even kea-kan

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WREAK

v.t.[G. The sense is to drive or throw, to dash with violence. ] 1. To execute; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy.
On me let death wreak all his rage.
2. To revenge.
Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain.
Anothers wrongs to wreak upon thyself.
[This latter sense is nearly or quite obsolete. ]

 

WREAK

for reck. To care, is a mistake.

 

WREAK

n.Revenge; vengeance; furious passion.

 

WREAKFUL

a.Revengeful; angry.

 

WREAKLESS

a.Unrevengeful; weak.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

WREAK

WREAK Wreak, v. i.

 

Defn: To reck; to care. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

WREAK

Wreak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wreaked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wreaking.] Etym: [OE. wrek to revenge, punish, drive out, AS. wrecan; akin to OFries. wreka, OS. wrekan to punish, D. wreken to avenge, G. rächen, OHG. rehhan, Icel. reka to drive, to take vengeance, Goth. wrikan to persecute, Lith. vargas distress, vargti to suffer distress, L.urgere to drive, urge, Gr. Urge, Wreck, Wretch. ]

 

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

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

 

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

 

WREAKEN

WREAKEN Wreak "en, obs.

 

Defn: p. p. of Wreak. Chaucer.

 

WREAKER

Wreak "er, n. Etym: [See Wreak. ]

 

Defn: Avenger. [Obs. ] The stork, the wrekere of avouterye [adultery ]. Chaucer.

 

WREAKFUL

WREAKFUL Wreak "ful, a.

 

Defn: Revengeful; angry; furious. [Obs. ] -- Wreak "ful *ly, adv. [Obs. ]

 

WREAKLESS

WREAKLESS Wreak "less, a.

 

Defn: Unrevengeful; weak. [Obs. ]

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

wreak

wreak |rēk rik | ▶verb [ with obj. ] cause (a large amount of damage or harm ): torrential rainstorms wreaked havoc yesterday | the environmental damage wreaked by ninety years of phosphate mining. • inflict (vengeance ): he was determined to wreak his revenge on the girl who had rejected him. • archaic avenge (someone who has been wronged ): grant me some knight to wreak me for my son. DERIVATIVES wreak er noun ORIGIN Old English wrecan ‘drive (out ), avenge, ’ of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wreken and German rächen; compare with wrack 4, wreck, and wretch . usage: The phrase wrought havoc, as in they wrought havoc on the countryside, is an acceptable variant of wreaked havoc. Here, wrought is an archaic past tense of work. It is not, as is sometimes assumed, a past tense of wreak .

 

Oxford Dictionary

wreak

wreak |riːk | ▶verb [ with obj. ] cause (a large amount of damage or harm ): torrential rainstorms wreaked havoc yesterday | the environmental damage wreaked by ninety years of phosphate mining. • inflict (vengeance ): he was determined to wreak his revenge on the girl who had rejected him. • archaic avenge (someone who has been wronged ): grant me some knight to wreak me for my son. DERIVATIVES wreaker noun ORIGIN Old English wrecan ‘drive (out ), avenge ’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wreken and German rächen; compare with wrack 4, wreck, and wretch . usage: In the phrase wrought havoc, as in they wrought havoc on the countryside, wrought is an archaic past tense of work and is not, as is sometimes assumed, a past tense of wreak .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

wreak

wreak verb the damage this storm has wreaked is inestimable: inflict, bestow, mete out, administer, deliver, impose, exact, create, cause, result in, effect, engender, bring about, perpetrate, unleash, let loose, vent; formal effectuate. USAGE See wrought . Usage notes show additional guidance on finer points of English usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

wreak

wreak verb these policies would wreak havoc on the British economy: inflict, create, cause, result in, effect, engender, bring about, perpetrate, unleash, vent, bestow, deal out, mete out, serve out, administer, carry out, deliver, apply, lay on, impose, exact; rare effectuate.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

wreak

wreak /riːk /動詞 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠1 «…に » 〈損害など 〉をもたらす «on , upon » .2 «…に » 〈復讐 （しゆう ）罰など 〉を加える ; 〈怒り 恨みなど 〉を浴びせる «on , upon » .