Definition of "wreak" []

• To inflict (vengeance or punishment) upon a person. (verb-transitive)
• To express or gratify (anger, malevolence, or resentment); vent. (verb-transitive)
• To bring about; cause: wreak havoc. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To take vengeance for; avenge. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Cold Case has all the train wreak-y elements that Law & Order has that makes it impossible to turn off: A violent crime in the first few minutes?"
• "To vote for an opposition party out of pure spite regardless of the train wreak they have made of international and domestic policy is pure absurdity."
• "I have opened my gardens to tourists and they stomp round the manor with glee, yet the cost of repairing the damage they wreak is not even recouped by the fee."