Thesaurus results for WREAKED

wreaked

verb

past tense of wreak

as in inflicted

to cause to suffer punishment or vengeance for wreaked their vengeance on those they considered enemies

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Recent Examples of wreaked Chicago area still cleaning up after Wednesday storms All this is happening on the heels of a day where storms wreaked havoc all around the Chicago area, pulling down trees and power lines and leaving hundreds of thousands of customers without power. —

Laura Bannon, CBS News, 11 June 2026 Youths wreaked havoc on Lee’s Summit’s Downtown Days on Saturday evening, and law enforcement eventually scattered attendees with threats of Tasers and pepper balls. —

Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026 When the president’s immigration enforcement tactics wreaked havoc on everyday life in America’s cities, GOP lawmakers were mum. —

The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026 Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. —

Joanna Ossinger,laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 3 June 2026 The bad weather has wreaked havoc on the rest of the on-track schedule — postponing the Truck Series race and canceling aspects of the O’Reilly schedule weekend. —

Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2026 The borough began preparing for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend in September, after authorities grappled with two back-to-back seasons of summer violence that overwhelmed officials and wreaked havoc on the shores. —

Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 22 May 2026 If Neptune did have an original set of moons that more closely resembled those of its planetary neighbors, the arrival of Triton — which is just smaller than our own moon — would have wreaked havoc, crashing into the other satellites and annihilating some of them. —

Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 20 May 2026 This capture wreaked havoc on the Neptune system and, until now, it's been thought that the planet's third-largest moon, Nereid, was also an object captured from the Kuiper Belt. —

Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 20 May 2026

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Verb

With all the horrors and terror that Gaff inflicted on women, his courtroom exit felt appropriate.

— Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Its military issued fresh evacuation orders for Tyre, the fifth-largest city in Lebanon, including the city’s Christian quarter that had until now been spared the destruction inflicted on much of the area.

— Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 9 June 2026