Wreak

rek, v. [wreaked (rekt). wreaking.] To execute in vengeance or pa ion; to inflict; to hurl or drive. [AS. wrecan (see above), D. wreken, to avenge, Ic. reka, to drive, also to thrust, repel, take vengeance, OHG. rechan, Goth, wrikan, to wreak anger on, persecute Lithuan. wargas, affliction, L. urgere, to pre , urge on, Gr. eirgein, to repel, Skr. vrij, to exclude, orig. to bend.] — Wreck, rek, n. Destruction; ruin: desolation; the destruction or injury of a ve el by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; the ruins of a ship stranded or otherwise rendered usele by violence and fracture; the remains of anything ruined. (Lavj.) Goods, etc., cast upon the land by the sea, after a shipwreck.— [WRECKED (rekt), WRECKING.] TO destroy, disable, or seriously damage (a ve el) by driving against the shore or on rocks, by causing to founder, etc to bring wreck or ruin upon, destroy. [AS. wrsFC, expulsion, banishment, wrecan see under Wrack, above, D. wrak, Ic. rek, Sw. vrak, wreck.] — Wreck'age, n. Act of wrecking; that which has been wrecked. — Wreck' er, n. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, for purposes of plunder one who searches for the cargoes of wrecked ve els, for plunder, or to save property for owners or underwriters; a ve el employed by wreckers. — Wreck'-mas'ter. A person appointed by law to take charge of eroods, etc.,"thrown on shore after a shipwreck. — Wretch, rech, n. A miserable person; one profoundly unhupny; one sunk in vice or degradation; a base, despicable person villain; profligate; scoundrel; rascal. [AS. wrecca, an outcast, fr. wrecan: see under Wrack, above.] — Wretch'ed. a. Very miserable; sunk in deep affliction or distre , from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; worthle : paltry; very poor or mean.— Wretch'edly, adi\ In a wretched manner; miserably; unhappily; meanly; despicably. — Wretcb/- edne , n.