Definitions for wrack

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Spelling: [rak]

IPA: /ræk/

Wrack is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in wrack (ackrw).

Definitions for wrack

noun

1. wreck or wreckage.
2. damage or destruction:
3. a trace of something destroyed:
4. seaweed or other vegetation cast on the shore.
5. Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.

verb (used with object)

1. to wreck:

verb (used without object)

1. to drive or move, especially before the wind.

noun, verb (used without object)

1. rack4 .

Origin of wrack

before 900; Middle English wrak (noun), Old English wræc vengeance, misery, akin to wracu vengeance, misery, wrecan to wreak

Examples for wrack

But my problem—one sufficient to wrack every fibre of my brain—was, what were they after?

The wrack had thickened to seaward, and the coast was but a blurred line.

There was a limit to the wrack and strain which the human organism could stand.

He finished with a cough that seemed to wrack him from head to feet.

So I began to wrack my brain to come up at least once a day with a pearl of wit or wisdom.

In the tempest's wrack the stars are dim and faith 's the only compass.

Not that I was one who craved for wrack and bilge at my nose all the time.

Like the baseless fabric of a vision Left not a wrack behind.

"I don't like to see things go to wrack and ruin," he remarked.

wrack or sea-weed, used as manure on some of the coasts of England.