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wrack
[ rak ]
noun
- wreck or wreckage.
- damage or destruction:
wrack and ruin.
- a trace of something destroyed:
leaving not a wrack behind.
- seaweed or other vegetation cast on the shore.
verb (used with object)
- to wreck:
He wracked his car up on the river road.
wrack
1/ ræk /
noun
- collapse or destruction (esp in the phrase wrack and ruin )
- something destroyed or a remnant of such
verb
- a variant spelling of rack 1
wrack
2/ ræk /
noun
- seaweed or other marine vegetation that is floating in the sea or has been cast ashore
- any of various seaweeds of the genus Fucus, such as F. serratus ( serrated wrack )
- literary.
- a wreck or piece of wreckage
- a remnant or fragment of something destroyed
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Origin of wrack1
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Example Sentences
So I began to wrack my brain to come up at least once a day with a pearl of wit or wisdom.
Now I say it ain't a-goin' to be more'n two hours befo' this wrack breaks up and washes off down the river.
And they came forward like the wrack of a surviving army at judgement day.
Suddenly something seemed to rise and assume form out of the storm-wrack, and this gradually grew into the shape of a vessel.
The waters of the sea are poured in thunder wrack upon the hills and run in rivers back into the sea.
The moon had gone in, and a misty scud-wrack spreading itself overhead was creeping around the dim crags on high.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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