| 词汇 | wreak |
| 释义 | wreak verb[ T ] formaluk /riːk/ us /riːk/ to cause something to happen in a violent and often uncontrolled way: 造成，引起（灾祸等） The recent storms have wreaked havoc on crops.最近的暴风雨给农作物造成了巨大的灾害。 She was determined to wreak revenge/vengeance on both him and his family.她决心要报复他和他的家人。 Synonyms bring cause inflict visit something on/upon someoneold use or formal Causing things to happen activation actuation agent attribute attribute something to someone give rise toidiom hyperstimulate hyperstimulation implement implementation launch pad prompt proximately put someone to somethingidiom Pygmalion effect reactivate realization render spark spell wreak | American Dictionarywreak verb[ T ] us/rik/past tense and past participlewreaked or wroughtus/rɔt/ to cause something to happen in a violent way: Uncontrolled financial markets continue to wreak one disaster after another. Changes in the climate have wreaked/wrought havoc with the region’s usual weather pattern. Examples of wreakwreak Alarmists feared that the world's population explosion would wreak environmental and economic havoc. On the other hand, because the parliamentary majorities of the coalitions have not been large, small regional parties can wreak havoc. In particular, it allowed its soldiers to wreak havoc on civilians during military operations. Consequently, the political arena has been left dominated by a few who have wreaked total havoc on the country. The central political purpose of conventional warfare is to wreak as much devastation as possible to force opponents to submit. The advent of modern travel has wreaked further havoc on the appropriate preposition. This can only wreak havoc on the ear and the mechanism of ear- finger interaction which a good player has spent decades developing. Beyond family symptoms, personal symptoms of disorder, even at subsyndromal levels, are likely to wreak havoc. An emotion with potentially more power to wreak havoc and cause harm than any other was that of anger. Obviously, the less one believed in ancestral spirits, the less one had reason to fear that the ancestor collective would return to wreak any vengeance. For the past year, she had required nightly home dialysis sessions, but the cancer continued to wreak havoc. Regardless of its efficacy, the policy wreaks havoc on the civilian population. Hazardous in and of themselves, the fluids that emerged from the female body could wreak havoc in the world. An outrageous force majeure is being wreaked on tenants—especially the elderly, as was pointed out— whereby they must obtain their insurance from a particular company. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now know that smoking wreaks devastation on the population's health. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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