wrack

UK /ɹæk/ US /ɹæk/
noun 8verb 4

Definitions

noun

1

Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.

2

Ruin; destruction.

Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.

3

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

1

To execute vengeance on; avenge.

2

To worry; tease; torment.

noun

1

Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.

2

The right to claim such items.

3

Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.

4

Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.

5

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.

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