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English Dictionary: Wrack by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wrack
n
  1. dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
  2. the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"
    Synonym(s): wrack, rack
  3. growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp
    Synonym(s): sea wrack, wrack
v
  1. smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"
    Synonym(s): bust up, wreck, wrack
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrack \Wrack\, n.
      A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrack \Wrack\, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See {Wreck}.]
      1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [bd]A world
            devote to universal wrack.[b8] --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrack \Wrack\, v. t.
      To rack; to torment. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrack \Wrack\, v. t.
      To wreck. [Obs.] --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[91]c exile, persecution,
      misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak,
      adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw
      off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a
      wreck, Dan. vrag. See {Wreak}, v. t., and cf. {Wrack} a
      marine plant.] [Written also {wrack}.]
      1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on
            shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the
            force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
  
                     Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging
                     floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate,
                     Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence;
            ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
  
                     The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
                     Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst
                     the wreck of its political life.         --J. R. Green.
  
      3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks
            or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by
            violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
  
      4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
  
                     To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of
                     what I was, fatigued I come.               --Cowper.
  
      5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon
            the land by the sea. --Bouvier.
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