Noun: wrack
| Singular | wrack |
| Plural | wracks |
Sample Sentences
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Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack. [2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Mr. Lytle: An Essay”, in Pulphead:]
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The dead mans corps hath made ſome Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryſe in beaſts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the reſt) / Uſe wracke for rewth? can murder like him beſt? [1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “The Hare, to the Hunter”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 177:]
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Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack,
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Since Hero's time hath half the world been black. [c. 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, page 7:]
Nouns inflected like wrack
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
wrake', Old English Nouns '
wracu'.
Verbs referencing "wrack"
German Nouns
Wrack, Dutch Nouns
wraak, Danish Nouns
vrag, Swedish Nouns
vrak.