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- verb Obsolete spelling of
wreak .
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Examples
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Wracke) ruine or Violence, whence commeth shipwracke: and not wreake, that is vengeaunce or wrath.
Shepheardes Calendar 1579
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Let†™ s go to a republican blog and wreake havoc.
Think Progress » Matalin Defends Coulter’s Attack on 9/11 Widows 2006
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Ill should I take revenge on a King, that had offended me, if I had not so much heart, as to wreake my spleene on a paltry Hawke.
The Decameron 2004
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Your sworne wreake on her husband, though this fail'd,
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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First showne in lingring my deare brothers wreake.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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And if she might not so wreake hir rancour, she would not sticke to poison them.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed
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Sommer Islands after the wreake of the Sea adventure wherin they sett forth from Englande, with them one hundred persons barely provided of vittel for themselves.
Colonial Records of Virginia Various
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And sware by heauen and hell, he would a wreake his sorowe
Gammer Gurton's Needle Anonymous 1575
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.... and fatally did vow To wreake her on the mayden messenger
Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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2249: A wreake of bull-rush rounded; about her stucke
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