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wrack (rak)
noun
- destruction; ruin
- a wrecked ship
- wreckage
- a fragment of something that has been destroyed
- seaweed or other marine plant life cast up on shore
Etymology: ME wrak, damage, wrecked ship < MDu wrak, a wreck, wrecked ship; akin to OE wræc, misery, something driven (< wrecan, to wreak)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
wrack (rak)
wrack (rak)
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Alternate definitions:
Object
- country: This dead-end job was the best I could do in a country wracked with unemployment ( over 30 % ).
Subject
- guilt: Wracked by guilt, Billie is now locked into a triangle - a kind of emotional Bermuda triangle of lost souls.
Converse of subject
- dominate: The dark areas are dominated by serrated wrack Fucus serratus.
Adjective modifier
- knotted: Ascophyllum nodosum ( egg or knotted wrack ) is a common brown seaweed which grows on sheltered rocky shores all around Britain.
Noun used with modifier
- bladder: On exposed shores the bladder wrack can be found in the form Fucus vesiculosus linearis.
Followed by a transitive particle
- up: But most of us don't and record numbers of us are in debt and wracked up thousands on our plastic.
Preposition: with
- guilt: Wracked with guilt, Frasier goes to her live show to talk her out of it.
Preposition: by
- guilt: Wracked by guilt, Billie is now locked into a triangle - a kind of emotional Bermuda triangle of lost souls.
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