[wräc-lâst], st. m., exile-step, exile, banishment: acc. sg. wräc-lâstas träd (trod exile-steps, wandered in exile), [1353].
[wräc-mäcg], st. m., exile, outcast: nom. pl. wräc-mäcgas, [2380].
[wräc-sîð], st. m., exile-journey, banishment, exile, persecution: acc. sg., [2293]; dat. sg. -sîðum, [338].
[wrät], st. f., ornament, jewel: acc. pl. wräte (wræce, MS.), [2772], [3061]; instr. pl. wrättum, [1532]; gen. pl. wrätta, [2414].
[wrät-lîc], adj.: 1) artistic, ornamental; valuable: acc. sg. wrät-lîcne wundur-mâððum, [2174]; wrät-lîc wæg-sweord, [1490]; wîg-bord wrät-lîc, [2340].—2) wondrous, strange: acc. sg. wrät-lîcne wyrm [from its rings or spots?], [892]; wlite-seón wrät-lîc, [1651].
[wræc], st. f., persecution; hence, wretchedness, misery: nom. sg., [170]; acc. sg. wræc, [3079].
[wrecan], st. v. w. acc.: 1) to press, force: pret. part. þær wäs Ongenþeó ... on bîd wrecen, [2963].—2) to drive out, expel: pret. sg. ferh ellen wräc, [2707].—3) to wreak or utter: gid, spel wrecan (to utter words or songs); subj. pres. sg. III. he gyd wrece, [2447]; inf. wrecan spel ge-râde, [874]; word-gyd wrecan, [3174]; pret. sg. gyd äfter wräc, [2155]; pres. part. þær wäs ... gid wrecen, [1066].—4) to avenge, punish: subj. pres. þät he his freónd wrece, [1386]; inf. wolde hire mæg wrecan, [1340]; so, [1279], [1547]; pres. part. wrecend (an avenger), [1257]; pret. sg. wräc Wedera nîð, [423]; so, [1334], [1670].
â-wrecan, to tell, recount: pret. sg. ic þis gid be þe â-wräc (I have told this tale for thee), [1725]; so, [2109].
for-wrecan, w. acc., to drive away, expel; carry away: inf. þý läs him ýða þrym wudu wyn-suman for-wrecan meahte (lest the force of the waves might carry away the winsome ship), [1920]; pret. sg. he hine feor for-wräc ... man-cynne fram, [109].
ge-wrecan, w. acc., to avenge, wreak vengeance upon, punish: pret. sg. ge-wräc, [107], [2006]; he ge-wräc (i.e. hit, this) cealdum cear-sîðum, [2396]; he hine sylfne ge-wräc (avenged himself), [2876]; pl. ge-wræcan, [2480]; pret. part. ge-wrecen, [3063].