Meaning of Wrack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
   archaic, dialectal, literary
2. Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
3. Ruin; destruction.
   archaic
4. The right to claim such items.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
5. The remains of something; a wreck.
6. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
   countable, uncountable
7. Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
   countable, uncountable
8. A high, flying cloud; a rack.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“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.”

“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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