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Definitions for Wrack

[1] wreck or wreckage.
[2] damage or destruction: wrack and ruin.
[3] a trace of something destroyed: leaving not a wrack behind.
[4] seaweed or other vegetation cast on the shore.
[5] to wreck: He wracked his car up on the river road.
[6] rack4.
[7] Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
[8] to drive or move, especially before the wind.
[9] collapse or destruction (esp in the phrase wrack and ruin )
[10] something destroyed or a remnant of such
[11] a variant spelling of rack 1
[12] seaweed or other marine vegetation that is floating in the sea or has been cast ashore
[13] any of various seaweeds of the genus Fucus, such as F. serratus (serrated wrack )
[14] literary , or dialect a wreck or piece of wreckage a remnant or fragment of something destroyed
[15] a framework for holding, carrying, or displaying a specific load or object a plate rack ; a hat rack ; a hay rack ; a luggage rack
[16] a toothed bar designed to engage a pinion to form a mechanism that will interconvert rotary and rectilinear motions
[17] a framework fixed to an aircraft for carrying bombs, rockets, etc
[18] the rack an instrument of torture that stretched the body of the victim
[19] a cause or state of mental or bodily stress, suffering, etc; anguish; torment (esp in the phrase on the rack )
[20] slang , mainly US a woman's breasts
[21] US and Canadian (in pool, snooker, etc) the triangular frame used to arrange the balls for the opening shot the balls so grouped Brit equivalent: frame
[22] to torture on the rack
[23] Also: wrack to cause great stress or suffering to guilt racked his conscience
[24] Also: wrack to strain or shake (something) violently, as by great physical force the storm racked the town
[25] to place or arrange in or on a rack to rack bottles of wine
[26] to move (parts of machinery or a mechanism) using a toothed rack
[27] to raise (rents) exorbitantly; rack-rent
[28] rack one's brains to strain in mental effort, esp to remember something or to find the solution to a problem
[29] destruction; wreck (obsolete except in the phrase go to rack and ruin )
[30] another word for single-foot, a gait of the horse
[31] a group of broken clouds moving in the wind
[32] (intr) (of clouds) to be blown along by the wind
[33] to clear (wine, beer, etc) as by siphoning it off from the dregs
[34] to fill a container with (beer, wine, etc)
[35] the neck or rib section of mutton, pork, or veal

Words related to Wrack

decimate, torment, wreck, ruin, trash, avenge, defeat

Words nearby Wrack

wr, wra, wraac, wraaf, wrac, wrack, wrackful, wraf, wraith, wran, wrang

Origin of Wrack

rack41350–1400; Middle English rak, reck(e ); origin uncertain

Words that may be confused with Wrack

rack, wrack, wreak, wreck, racked, wracked, wreaked, wrecked

Word origin for Wrack

rackOld English hrace ; related to Old High German rahho , Danish harke , Swedish harkla to clear one's throat

Synonyms for Wrack

decimate, torment, wreck, avenge, defeat, ruin, trash