Wrack

Quick meaning: Wrack is a noun meaning The remains of something; a wreck.

Meaning

The remains of something; a wreck.

More Meanings

1. (UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance on; avenge.
2. (UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
3. Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
4. The right to claim such items.
5. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
6. (archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
7. (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.

Example Sentences

Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• wracks
• wrake
• wracking
• wracked
• wrackt
• wrackest
• wrackedst
• wracketh

Synonyms for wrack

Depending on context, synonyms include rack, wreck, bust up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bust up, wreck, rack, ruin, wrake, wreak.

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