wrack

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

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.”)

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ɹæk/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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.