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Definition wrack

Etymology 1

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

Noun

wrack (plural wracks)

1. (archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
2. (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
3. The remains; a wreck.

Verb

wrack (third-person singular simple present wracks, present participle wracking, simple past and past participle wracked)

1. (Britain dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance; avenge.
2. (Britain dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.

Etymology 2

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch wrak.

Cognate with German Wrack, Old Norse rek, Danish vrag, Swedish vrak, Old English wræc); also compare Gothic ?????? (wrikan), ??????? (wrakjan, “persecute”), Old Norse reka (“drive”).

Noun

wrack (countable and uncountable, plural wracks)

1. (archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
2. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.
3. Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
4. A high flying cloud; a rack.

Verb

wrack (third-person singular simple present wracks, present participle wracking, simple past and past participle wracked or wrackt)

1. (transitive) To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).
2. Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”)

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