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Synonyms for wracked

Grammar : Verb
Spell : rak
Phonetic Transcription : ræk

Définition of wracked

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 :
  • His body trembled with fear, his head was wracked by a burning pain.
  • Extract from : « Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends » by Gertrude Landa
  • The feeling of unfulfillment that had wracked him constantly was giving way.
  • Extract from : « Stubble » by George Looms
  • Tears streamed from his eyes; his heart was wracked with woe.
  • Extract from : « A Secret Inheritance (Volume 3 of 3) » by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon
  • Mike wracked his brain for a means of speeding up the Space Queen.
  • Extract from : « Before Egypt » by E. K. Jarvis
  • He wracked his brains in a vain effort to discover what was going to happen to him.
  • Extract from : « Wang the Ninth » by Putnam Weale
  • Don't roll your eyes so--I don't mean dat we's going to be wracked.
  • Extract from : « Brave Tom » by Edward S. Ellis
  • And he would die, alone, wracked by the ailment he had introduced into the human line.
  • Extract from : « Disaster Revisited » by Darius John Granger
  • Wracked with agony, she gazes about at the sea of hostile faces––not one stray iota of sympathy in that Dark Hour.
  • Extract from : « Orphans of the Storm » by Henry MacMahon
  • And now we must redouble our fight against the persistent inflation that has wracked our country for more than a decade.
  • Extract from : « Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to 2006 » by Various
  • Every muscle and sinew in me was wracked, while I stood in a driving wind and freezing rain.
  • Extract from : « An Artilleryman's Diary » by Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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