English Explanatory Dictionary

wrack

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
  2. Ruin; destruction.
  3. The remains of something; a wreck.
verb
  1. To execute vengeance on; avenge.
  2. To worry; tease; torment.
noun
  1. Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
  2. The right to claim such items.
  3. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
  4. Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
  5. A high, flying cloud; a rack.
verb
  1. To wreck, especially a ship.
  2. Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”).

Pronunciation

/ɹæk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sapaa-wrack.wav

Word forms

wrack wracks wrake wracking wracked wrackt no-table-tags glossary wrackest wrackedst wracketh

Etymology

From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.

Derived words

wrack and ruin black wrack bladder wrack buckey wrack channelled wrack egg wrack flat wrack grass wrack horn wrack knobbed wrack knotted wrack lady wrack notched wrack serrated wrack spiral wrack tangle-wrack tidewrack toothed wrack wrack line wrack zone storm-wracked
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