Definitions for wreaks

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Spelling: [reek]
IPA: /rik/

Wreaks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in wreaks (aekrsw).

Definitions for wreaks

verb (used with object)

  1. to inflict or execute (punishment, vengeance, etc.):
  2. to carry out the promptings of (one's rage, ill humor, will, desire, etc.), as on a victim or object:

Origin of wreaks

before 900; Middle English wreken, Old English wrecan; cognate with German rächen to avenge, Old Norse reka to drive, avenge, Gothic wrikan to persecute; akin to Latin urgēre to drive, push

Examples for wreaks

This social writer has scorn, as an author should, and he wreaks it upon parishes.

Mr. Magoon is a writer of great fluency and sensibility, who "wreaks" his thoughts upon expression.

For from one to two months in the spring, floating ice gives a great deal of trouble and wreaks disaster to the pontoon.

If so, a disaster would happen as Gaddafi wreaks revenge on his own people.

Parkinson's wreaks havoc by affecting nerve cells in the brain that make the neurotransmitter called dopamine.

How dreadful are its torments, when it wreaks all its anger upon the guilty!

Purchased by a wealthy, unhappy, and clueless suburban couple, this self-possessed Emily wreaks sexually charged havoc.

Dyce was doubtless right in supposing "wreaks" to be used metri causa for "wrecks."

Surely a God who wreaks vengeance for one man's sin upon his innocent children cannot be a God of Justice!

As long as the regime shells at will and wreaks havoc on the area, rebel control is only partial.

Word Value for wreaks
Scrable

13

Words with friends

13

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