'Wrack' definitions:
Definition of 'wrack'
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Definition of 'Wrack'
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- Wrack \Wrack\, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See Wreck.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] --Chaucer. "A world devote to universal wrack." --Milton. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind. [1913 Webster]
- Wrack grass, or Grass wrack (Bot.), eelgrass. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrack'
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- Wrack \Wrack\, v. t. To wreck. [Obs.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrack'
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- Wrack \Wrack\, n. A thin, flying cloud; a rack. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrack'
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- Wrack \Wrack\, v. t. To rack; to torment. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'wrack'
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- Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[ae]c exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.] [Written also wrack.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck. [1913 Webster]
- Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. [1913 Webster]
- The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. [1913 Webster]
- To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wrack'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- algae,
- autophyte,
- bean,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- bracken,
- breakdown,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- bring to ruin,
- brown algae,
- carnage,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- climber,
- collapse,
- condemn,
- conferva,
- confervoid,
- confound,
- consume,
- consumption,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- creeper,
- damn,
- damnation,
- deal destruction,
- debacle,
- decimate,
- decimation,
- demolish,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- desolate,
- desolation,
- despoil,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- devastate,
- devastation,
- devour,
- diatom,
- disaster,
- disintegration,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- engorge,
- fern,
- fruits and vegetables,
- fucus,
- fungus,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- grapevine,
- green algae,
- gulfweed,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- herb,
- heterophyte,
- holocaust,
- incinerate,
- ivy,
- kelp,
- lay in ruins,
- lay waste,
- legume,
- lentil,
- liana,
- lichen,
- liverwort,
- mold,
- moss,
- mushroom,
- parasite,
- parasitic plant,
- pea,
- perdition,
- perthophyte,
- phytoplankton,
- planktonic algae,
- plant families,
- puffball,
- pulse,
- ravage,
- raze,
- red algae,
- rockweed,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- ruination,
- rust,
- saprophyte,
- sargasso,
- sargassum,
- sea lentil,
- sea moss,
- sea wrack,
- seaweed,
- shambles,
- shipwreck,
- slaughter,
- smash,
- smashup,
- smut,
- spoliation,
- succulent,
- swallow up,
- throw into disorder,
- toadstool,
- total loss,
- unbuild,
- undo,
- undoing,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- unmake,
- upheave,
- vandalism,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- vetch,
- vine,
- washout,
- waste,
- wort,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreak havoc,
- wreck