wrack and ruin
Complete destruction.
Whiles all things seeme to fall to wracke and ruine.
noun
Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
Ruin; destruction.
Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.
The remains of something; a wreck.
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.
verb
To execute vengeance on; avenge.
To worry; tease; torment.
noun
Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
The right to claim such items.
Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
A high, flying cloud; a rack.
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.