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Wrack   /ræk/   Listen
Wrack

noun
1.
Dried seaweed especially that cast ashore.
2.
The destruction or collapse of something.  Synonym: rack.
3.
Growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp.  Synonym: sea wrack.
verb
1.
Smash or break forcefully.  Synonyms: bust up, wreck.



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"Wrack" Quotes from Famous Books



... Abydos, which has vanished and left no wrack behind, rose once in this spot where we now stand, on the very threshold of the solitudes; but its necropoles, more venerated even than those of Memphis, and its thrice-holy temples, are a little farther on, in the marvellously conserving sand, which has buried them under ...
— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti

... and gloom-wrack, Out of the dim and yore, Freighted as train or caravan Was never ...
— Behind the Arras - A Book of the Unseen • Bliss Carman

... Spanish Armado to wrack, And Travell'd all o'er the old World, and came back, In his old Ship, laden with Gold and old Sack, ...
— Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 • Various

... mediaeval myth. But let us deal tenderly with it, remembering that the day may come when the beliefs that are nearest to our hearts may be treated as open to contempt or ridicule, and the dogmas to which we most passionately cling will, "like an insubstantial pageant faded, leave not a wrack behind." ...
— Elizabethan Demonology • Thomas Alfred Spalding

... Eliza! oh, world-famous crew! Which shall I hail more blest, your queen or you? While without other either falls to wrack, And light must eyes, or eyes their light must lack. She without you, a diamond sunk in mine, Its worth unprized, to self alone must shine; You without her, like hands bereft of head, Like Ajax rage, by blindfold lust misled. She light, you eyes; she head, and you the hands, In fair ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley


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