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Meaning of wreaking

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

wreaking

verb

Definitions

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

    Example: She wreaked her anger on his car.

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

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

  3. To inflict or take vengeance on.

  4. To take vengeance for.

noun

Definitions

  1. The act by which something is wreaked.

    Example: the wreakings of revenge