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# wreak

«wreak» in Mova's school dictionary: **To cause harm or damage, especially as a way of getting…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (wreaks, wreaked, wreaking)

### meaning for a pupil

To cause harm or damage, especially as a way of getting revenge, as in «wreak vengeance». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreak/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

old use or formal; in stories, someone takes revenge on an enemy or spends anger on another person

### examples

- The witch wanted to wreak revenge on the boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreak/#x1)
- He wreaked his anger on the stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreak/#x2)
- The storm wreaked havoc on the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreak/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wreak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.