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/ɹæk/ · noun
(archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble..
Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.
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.
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.
Nor did the croakers have long to wait. The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern. About one o’clock in the morning there was a terrific impact that threw the slumbering guests and crew from berth and bunk. A mighty shudder ran through the frail craft; she lay far over to starboard; the engines stopped.
It marked her first performance in over four years after revealing that her body had been wracked with painful spasms following her diagnosis with the rare and chronic neurological disorder.
Use wrack when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wrack means (archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble..
Common synonyms include rack, wreck, bust up, sea wrack.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.
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