Sekirov Dictionary

wrack

/ɹæk/

noun 8
verb 3
forms 8
phrases 1

noun8

Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
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The remains of something; a wreck.
- Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack. — 2011
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(dialect) Ruin; destruction.
- Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black. — 1593
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A high, flying cloud; a rack.
- A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. — 1892
(no longer used) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
(no longer used) The right to claim such items.
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(dialect, no longer used) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
- The dead mans corps hath made some Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryse in beasts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the rest) / Use wracke for rewth? can murder like him best? — 1575

verb3

To wreck, especially a ship.
(dialect, UK) To worry; tease; torment.
(dialect, UK) To execute vengeance on; avenge.

forms

wracked · wrackt · wrackt · wrackedst · wracking · wracketh · wracks · wrackest

Phrases with wrack

wrack and ruin
Complete destruction.

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