Read full poem →Rends shallower grace with ruin void of ruth,
Upon this beauty's power shall wreak no wrong.
Dictionary Entry
To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; .
In a Sentence
“She wreaked her anger on his car.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “wreak”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Except to urge an erring hand
To wreak its homage on the land,
Who of us that is worth his while
Read full poem →Thought his pain and shame would be lesser,
If on womankind he might his anger wreak;
And thence a law did grow,
Read full poem →Thine efforts shortly shall be shown,
When all the vengeance thou canst wreak
Must fall upon--a nameless stone.
Read full poem →See a great Tree of Life that never sere
Dropped leaf for aught that age or storms might wreak;
Such ending is not death: such living shows
Read full poem →Break not them then so wrongfully,
But wreak thyself some wiser way.
And though the songs which I indite
Read full poem →Let Touchstone set the fashions for the wise
And Ariel wreak his fancies through the rain.
Read full poem →'God, in my need, be my relief,
As I wreak this on yonder Chief!'
A lock from Blanche's tresses fair