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wreaking

  • present participle of wreak.

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Wreaking havoc in the city of nearly 900,000, Otis, a Category 5 hurricane, killed dozens of people and left thousands more without roofs over their heads.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2023

Wreaking havoc on nearly every aspect of the industry, the pandemic accelerated seismic shifts in the way movies are made and consumed.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2021

Wreaking havoc on business as usual in Hollywood, the pandemic forced the industry to make many sudden moves, shifting release dates and upending modes of distribution that had stretched back decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2021

Both Evie Wyld's new novel, All the Birds, Singing, and James Scudamore's Wreaking have remote, rain-riven places at their heart – perfect, then, for any kind of squall or heatwave.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2013

He spake moreover of assailing fiends Empowered to quit on me my father's blood, Wreaking their wrath on me, what time in night Beneath shut lids the spirit's eye sees clear.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)