wrak

Signification

Noun

1. (neuter) a wreck (remains of a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or other piece of machinery)
2. (neuter) a wreck (severely damaged creature)

Adj

defective, derelict, rickety

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/vrɑk/

Étymologie

From Middle Dutch wrac (“defective; wreck”), from Proto-West Germanic *wrekan, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to push, drive out”), probably in the sense of things cast ashore.