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wrack

1  [rak]
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–noun
1. wreck or wreckage.
2. damage or destruction: wrack and ruin.
3. a trace of something destroyed: leaving not a wrack behind.
4. seaweed or other vegetation cast on the shore.
–verb (used with object)
5. to wreck: He wracked his car up on the river road.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME wrak (n.), OE wræc vengeance, misery, akin to wracu vengeance, misery, wrecan to wreak
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wrack

2  [rak]
–noun, verb (used without object)
rack 4 .

rack

4  [rak]
–noun
1. Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
–verb (used without object)
2. to drive or move, esp. before the wind.
Also, wrack.

Origin:
1350–1400; ME rak, reck(e); orig. uncert.
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wrack 1 also rack   (rāk)   
n.  

  1. Destruction or ruin.

  2. A remnant or vestige of something destroyed.


[Middle English, from Old English wræc, punishment (influenced by Middle Dutch wrak, shipwreck).]
wrack 2 also rack   (rāk)   
n.  

    1. Wreckage, especially of a ship cast ashore.

    2. Chiefly British Violent destruction of a building or vehicle.

    3. Dried seaweed.

    4. Marine vegetation, especially kelp.

    1. Dried seaweed.

    2. Marine vegetation, especially kelp.

v.   wracked also racked, wrack·ing also rack·ing, wracks also racks

v.   tr.
To cause the ruin of; wreck.
v.   intr.
To be wrecked.

[Middle English wrak, from Middle Dutch.]
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wrack

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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