Wrack

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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