wreak.html - {v. phr.} To cause damage; ruin something. * /His rebellious attitude is bound to wreak havoc at the company./

wreak.html - v.tr.
1 (usu. foll. by upon) give play or satisfaction to; put in operation (vengeance or one's anger etc.).
2 cause (damage etc.) (the hurricane wreaked havoc on the crops).
3 archaic avenge (a wrong or wronged person).

wreaker n. [OE wrecan drive, avenge, etc., f. Gmc: cf. WRACK, WRECK, WRETCH]

wreak.html - {v. phr.} To cause damage; ruin something. * /His rebellious attitude is bound to wreak havoc at the company./

wreak.html - v.tr.
1 (usu. foll. by upon) give play or satisfaction to; put in operation (vengeance or one's anger etc.).
2 cause (damage etc.) (the hurricane wreaked havoc on the crops).
3 archaic avenge (a wrong or wronged person).

wreaker n. [OE wrecan drive, avenge, etc., f. Gmc: cf. WRACK, WRECK, WRETCH]

wreak.html - n.
(pl. wreaths)
1 flowers or leaves fastened in a ring esp. as an ornament for a person's head or a building or for laying on a grave etc. as a mark of honour or respect.
2 a a similar ring of soft twisted material such as silk. b Heraldry a representation of this below a crest.
3 a carved representation of a wreath.
4 (foll. by of) a curl or ring of smoke or cloud.
5 a light drifting mass of snow etc. [OE writha f. weak grade of writhan WRITHE]

wreak.html - v.
1 tr. encircle as, with, or like a wreath.
2 tr. (foll. by round) put (one's arms etc.) round (a person etc.).
3 intr. (of smoke etc.) move in the shape of wreaths.
4 tr. form (flowers, silk, etc.) into a wreath.
5 tr. make (a garland). [partly back-form. f. archaic wrethen past part. of WRITHE; partly f. WREATH]