Wrack

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • idiom. (wrack (one's) brains/brain) To try hard to remember or think of something.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Wreckage, especially of a ship cast ashore.
  • noun. Violent destruction of a building or vehicle.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Seaweed that has been cast ashore or dried.
  • noun. Any of various brown algae, especially rockweed or kelp.
  • intransitive verb. To cause the ruin of; wreck.
  • intransitive verb. To be wrecked.
  • noun. Destruction or ruin. Used chiefly in the phrase wrack and ruin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To destroy; make shipwreck of; wreck.
  • noun. A variant of rack.
  • An obsolete misspelling of rack.
  • noun. That which is cast ashore by the waves.
  • noun. The destruction of a ship by winds or rocks or by the force of the waves; shipwreck. See wreck.
  • noun. Destruction; ruin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Wreck; ruin; destruction.
  • noun. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores.
  • noun. Coarse seaweed of any kind.
  • noun. eelgrass.
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To wreck.
  • transitive verb. To rack; to torment.
  • noun. A thin, flying cloud; a rack.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. revenge, persecution
  • noun. ruin, destruction
  • noun. the remains; a wreck
  • noun. remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items
  • noun. any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus
  • noun. weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond
  • noun. A high, flying clouds; a rack
  • verb. to wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive)
  • verb. Alternative form of rack, to cause to suffer pain etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the destruction or collapse of something
  • noun. dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
  • noun. growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
  • verb. smash or break forcefully
  • Word Usage
    "Wrack as a noun generally is confined to the phrase wrack and ruin."
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