wrack

Meaning

Noun

1. Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
2. Ruin; destruction.
3. The remains of something; a wreck.

Verb

1. To execute vengeance on; avenge.
2. To worry; tease; torment.

Verb

1. To wreck, especially a ship.
2. Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”)

Concepts

wrack

ruin

shipwreck

wreck

kelp

seaweed

sea wrack

rack

brown alga

destruction

devastation

bust up

calamity

ruination

break

destroy

knock out

vraic

debris

wreckage

bane

perdition

harass

plague

torment

sea moss

sea tang

desolation

disaster

doomsday

fall

havoc

ravage

annihilate

bang up

blast

consume

cripple

cut to ribbons

desolate

destruct

devour

drag down

exterminate

interdict

key

kill

lay waste to

nuke

obliterate

plunder

pulverise

raze

subvert

total

vandalise

vandalize

vaporize

batter down

dispel

shatter

smash up

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹæk/

Etymology

From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.