wreak

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
wreak/riːk/

▶verb

• 1 cause (a large amount of damage or harm).

• 2 inflict (vengeance).

  ■ archaic avenge (a wronged person).

– derivatives
wreaker noun.

– origin OE wrecan ‘drive (out), avenge’, of Gmc origin; cf. wrack4, wreck, and wretch.