wrack
/ɹæk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.21 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
British usage; Archaic; Literary
noun
noun
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack."
- "The dead mans corps hath made ſome Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryſe in beaſts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the reſt) / Uſe wracke for rewth? can murder like him beſt?"
- "Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black."
- "A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds."
- "Nor did the croakers have long to wait. The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern. About one o’clock in the morning there was a terrific impact that threw the slumbering guests and crew from berth and bunk. A mighty shudder ran through the frail craft; she lay far over to starboard; the engines stopped."
- "It marked her first performance in over four years after revealing that her body had been wracked with painful spasms following her diagnosis with the rare and chronic neurological disorder."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
wracks (plural)
wrake (alternative, obsolete)
wracks (present, singular)
wracking (participle, present)
wracked (participle, past)
wracked (past)
wrackt (participle, past)
wrackt (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
wracked (first person, past)
wrackest (archaic, present)
Derived Forms
Phrases
wrack and ruin
black wrack
bladder wrack
buckey wrack
channelled wrack
egg wrack
flat wrack
grass wrack