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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/ æ /
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/ æ /
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
Usage
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of wrack1
Origin of wrack2
Idioms and Phrases
see under rack .Example Sentences
Trump's and his administration's focus on eradicating the gang has since brought additional, hostile attention to an immigrant population wracked with political turbulence.
As he languished on the IL, enduring a series of painful flare-ups almost every time he tried to begin a hitting program, the nine-year veteran started to become wracked with doubt.
Since then the country has been wracked by economic chaos, little functioning political control and increasingly violent gang warfare.
In the late 1960s, the state was wracked by armed conflict between Maoist rebels – also called Naxalites – and government forces.
By then, RayRay was wracked by an assortment of infirmities linked to his advanced age.
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