| Main Entry: | wreak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | force, cause |
Synonyms: |
bring about, carry out, create, effect, execute, exercise, force upon, inflict, unleash, vent, visit, work, wreck |
| Notes: | wreak means to cause something, especially trouble; wreck means to destroy something |
| Main Entry: | bring |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause; influence |
Synonyms: |
begin, compel, contribute to, convert, convince, create, dispose, effect, engender, force, induce, inflict, lead, make, move, occasion, persuade, prevail on, prevail upon, produce, prompt, result in, sway, wreak |
Antonyms: |
avoid, back out, desist, give up, hold back, pass up |
| Main Entry: | commit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform an action |
Synonyms: |
accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, complete, contravene, do, effectuate, enact, execute, go for broke, go in for, go out for, offend, perpetrate, pull, pull off, scandalize, sin, transgress, trespass, violate, wreak |
Antonyms: |
cease, desist, end, idle, loaf, rest, stop, wait |
| Main Entry: | impose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set, dictate |
Synonyms: |
appoint, burden, charge, command, compel, constrain, decree, demand, encroach, enforce, enjoin, establish, exact, fix, foist, force, force upon, horn in, inflict, infringe, institute, introduce, intrude, lade, lay, lay down, lay down the law, levy, move in on, oblige, obtrude, ordain, order, place, prescribe, presume, promulgate, put, put foot down, read riot act, require, saddle, take advantage, trespass, visit, wish, wreak, wreck |
| Main Entry: | inflict |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | impose something |
Synonyms: |
administer, apply, bring upon, command, deal out, deliver, dispense, exact, expose, extort, force, force upon, give, give it to, lay down the law, levy, mete out, require, stick it to, strike, subject, visit, wreak |
| Notes: | afflict is generally used with living beings; inflict is generally used with inanimate objects inflict takes 'on,' afflict takes 'with' |
| Main Entry: | perpetrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be responsible for |
Synonyms: |
act, bring about, carry out, commit, do, effect, enact, execute, inflict, perform, pull, up and do, wreak |
Antonyms: |
abstain |
| Main Entry: | visit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bother, haunt |
Synonyms: |
afflict, assail, attack, avenge, befall, bring down on, descend upon, force upon, impose, inflict, pain, punish, smite, trouble, wreak, wreck |