wrack

Plural: wracks

Noun

• dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
• the destruction or collapse of something
  • "wrack and ruin"
• growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
• Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
• Ruin; destruction.
• The remains of something; a wreck.
• Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
• The right to claim such items.
• Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
• Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
• A high, flying cloud; a rack.

Verb

Verb Forms: wracked, wracking, wracks

• To cause severe damage or destruction; to wreck.
• smash or break forcefully
• To execute vengeance on; avenge.
• To worry; tease; torment.
• To wreck, especially a ship.
• Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”).

Examples

• One misplaced letter could wrack his entire game strategy in Words With Friends.

Synonyms

bust up, rack, sea wrack, wreck

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