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Definitions

Adverb

1. 1
   Wrecked; in ruins. archaic, not-comparable

   "By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead."

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wrecked

Example

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"By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead."

Etymology

From a- + wrack.

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