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wreak havoc
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Tonight Sam Westing would wreak his revenge unless she could prevent it. (source)wreak = work (or cause to happen)
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The folk he'd made were evil, they'd gone all wrong, they were wreaking havoc in the world. (source)wreaking = causing to happen
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There's also a winged pterodactyl that appears once in a while to wreak havoc.† (source)
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I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.† (source)
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Eventually, by simple laws of probability, a series of cyberattack waves had coalesced, the same way giant rogue waves were created in the real oceans that seemingly came from nowhere to wreak destruction.† (source)
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That you'd strap on your gun and ride out to wreak vengeance on the man who killed your family?† (source)
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A few days after my daughter's death, I learned that on April 20, while bullets wreaked havoc in the halls of Columbine High, friends of ours traveling in Israel were attending a service to remember fallen soldiers.† (source)
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My eyes kept returning to a blue kite that had been wreaking havoc for the last hour.† (source)wreaking = causing to happen -- especially something that is damaging and uncontrollable
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Wreaks havoc on my complexion.† (source)
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So sank they to slumber; but one paid full sorely For his rest of the even, as to them fell full often Sithence that the gold-hall Grendel had guarded, And won deed of unright, until that the end came And death after sinning: but clear was it shown now, Wide wotted of men, that e'en yet was a wreaker Living after the loathly, a long while of time After the battle-care, Grendel's own mother; The woman, the monster-wife, minded her woe, She who needs must in horror of waters be wonning, 1260 The streams all a-cold, sithence Cain was become For an edge-bane forsooth to his very own brother, The own son of his father.† (source)
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Then lightly they learn'd me, my people, this lore, E'en the best that there be of the wise of the churls, O Hrothgar the kingly, that thee should I seek to, Whereas of the might of my craft were they cunning; For they saw me when came I from out of my wargear, Blood-stain'd from the foe whenas five had I bounden, 420 Quell'd the kin of the eotens, and in the wave slain The nicors by night-tide: strait need then I bore, Wreak'd the grief of the Weders, the woe they had gotten; I ground down the wrathful; and now against Grendel I here with the dread one alone shall be dooming, In Thing with the giant.† (source)
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I have some Greek heroes to wreak vengeance upon!† (source)
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"My Queen," said the dark-haired woman, "refers to your so-called blue fever that has wreaked such havoc on your citizens.† (source)
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Since they have moved into the open, they have been wreaking havoc.† (source)
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The other is a mood of impotent fury in which he wreaks imaginary revenges upon those who have wronged him.† (source)
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