English Explanatory Dictionary

storm-wracked

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Destroyed by a storm.
  2. Stormy, beset by a storm.

Word forms

storm-wracked more storm-wracked most storm-wracked storm-racked

Etymology

From earlier “wracked by storm”, in sense wrack (“destroy”). Later sense of “stormy” due to influence by and confusion with rack (“torture, suffer”); see usage notes for rack.

Related words

pain-racked
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