wreake

See also: Wreake

English

Verb

wreake (third-person singular simple present wreakes, present participle wreaking, simple past and past participle wreaked)

1. Obsolete spelling of wreak.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎^[1]:

     "And, in avengement of their bold attempt, Both sun and starres and all the heavenly powres Conspire in one to wreake their rash contempt, And downe on them to fall from highest towres: 580 The skie, in pieces seeming to be rent, Throwes lightning forth, and haile, and harmful showres, That death on everie side to them appeares, In thousand formes, to worke more ghastly feares.

Anagrams

• rewake, weaker