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- verb Present participle of
wreak . - noun The act by which something is wreaked.
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Examples
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Stevo is the blue-haired son of a Harvard educated lawyer and aging hippie mother whose ambitions lie in wreaking low scale havoc and dismantling … well, everything.
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Valuable performer for the Cowboys as a part of their defensive end rotation the last two years, joining Greg Richmond and Khreem Smith in wreaking havoc on opposing quarterbacks ...
USATODAY.com 2005
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Our disesteeming view of the European debt crisis cannot prevent the inevitable; a surging dollar short-term wreaking havoc on US exports, thus slowing the economy, and, possible seizing the international credit system.
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Marvin Clark 2010
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Turn to Women Without Men to experience the visual splendor of Iranian-born Shirin Neshat in collaboration with partner Shoja Azari (a man whose current art exhibit was described as wreaking with subversive feminism).
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All men may love the idea of wreaking havoc together, but few of us actually do it.
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All men may love the idea of wreaking havoc together, but few of us actually do it.
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All men may love the idea of wreaking havoc together, but few of us actually do it.
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All men may love the idea of wreaking havoc together, but few of us actually do it.
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All men may love the idea of wreaking havoc together, but few of us actually do it.
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But more than just wreaking criminal mayhem, the fire companies also defended Irish immigrants from attacks by anti-immigrant gangs and from intrusions by moral reformers.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
MaryAnnHogan commented on the word wreaking
On ABC's 'Nightline" March 23, 2009 the anchor Ms. McFadden pronounced the word 'wreaking' as 'wrecking' 17 minutes into the broadcast as she was introducing the next segment about modern day pirates. (wreaking havoc)
March 25, 2009