wrack

Object

• country: This dead-end job was the best I could do in a country wracked with unemployment ( over 30 % ).
• body: Next to her, a young man sat on the kerbside, his body wracked in grief as he cried and cried.

Subject

• guilt: Wracked by guilt, Billie is now locked into a triangle - a kind of emotional Bermuda triangle of lost souls.
• conflict: And it cannot be fulfilled if this part of the continent remains wracked by conflict.
• war: During the twentieth century Spain was wracked by civil war.
• violence: The US-led coalition is also trying to restore calm in cities wracked by violence and looting since the regime lost power.
• instability: Throughout the first half of the 1990s, Bulgaria was wracked by political instability and strikes.

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.
• serrated: The reason is that the serrated wrack grows very quickly, in a matter of months.

Noun used with modifier

• bladder: On exposed shores the bladder wrack can be found in the form Fucus vesiculosus linearis.
• spiral: The channeled wrack colonizes higher up the shore than the spiral wrack.

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.
• pain: Of course it was awful, and she really was wracked with awful pain.

Preposition: by

• guilt: Wracked by guilt, Billie is now locked into a triangle - a kind of emotional Bermuda triangle of lost souls.
• conflict: And it cannot be fulfilled if this part of the continent remains wracked by conflict.
• war: During the twentieth century Spain was wracked by civil war.
• violence: The US-led coalition is also trying to restore calm in cities wracked by violence and looting since the regime lost power.
• instability: Throughout the first half of the 1990s, Bulgaria was wracked by political instability and strikes.