Wreak

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Revenge; vengeance; furious passion; resentment. [Obs.] Shak. Spenser.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To reck; to care. [Obs.] Shak.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To revenge; to avenge. [Archaic] He should wreake him on his foes. Chaucer. Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself. Spenser. Come wreak his loss, whom bootless ye complain. Fairfax.

2. To execute in vengeance or passion; to inflict; to hurl or drive; as, to wreak vengeance on an enemy. On me let Death wreak all his rage. Milton. Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. Macaulay. But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave. Bryant.