Synonyms for wrack

Grammar : Verb

Spell : rak

Phonetic Transcription : ræk

Définition of wrack

Origin : late 14c., "wrecked ship," probably from Middle Dutch wrak "wreck," cognate with Old English wræc "misery, punishment," and wrecan "to punish, drive out" (see wreak). The meaning "damage, disaster, destruction" (in wrack and ruin) is from c.1400, from the Old English word. Sense of "seaweed, etc., cast up on shore" is recorded from 1510s.

verb destroy

Example sentences :

The wrack had thickened to seaward, and the coast was but a blurred line.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

He finished with a cough that seemed to wrack him from head to feet.
Extract from : « Rival Pitchers of Oakdale » by Morgan Scott

Not that I was one who craved for wrack and bilge at my nose all the time.
Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro

In the tempest's wrack the stars are dim and faith 's the only compass.
Extract from : « Wappin' Wharf » by Charles S. Brooks

"I don't like to see things go to wrack and ruin," he remarked.
Extract from : « Country Neighbors » by Alice Brown

Wrack or sea-weed, used as manure on some of the coasts of England.
Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth

But my problem—one sufficient to wrack every fibre of my brain—was, what were they after?
Extract from : « Ravensdene Court » by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

Like the baseless fabric of a vision Left not a wrack behind.
Extract from : « The Lighthouse » by R.M. Ballantyne

There was a limit to the wrack and strain which the human organism could stand.
Extract from : « A Far Country, Complete » by Winston Churchill

And they came forward like the wrack of a surviving army at judgement day.
Extract from : « Hunters Out of Space » by Joseph Everidge Kelleam

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