wreak
• verb 1 cause (a large amount of damage or harm). 2 inflict (vengeance). — USAGE The past tense of wreak is wreaked, as in rainstorms wreaked havoc yesterday, not wrought. When wrought is used in the phrase wrought havoc, it is in fact an archaic past tense of work. — ORIGIN Old English, drive (out), avenge ; related to WRECK and WRETCH.
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