Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.
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Wrack
//ɹæk//
Synonyms for "wrack" (156 found)
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perditionperthophytephytoplanktonplanktonplanktonic algaeplant familiespuffballpulseravagerazered algaerockweedruinruinateruinationrustsaprophytesargassosargassumsea lentilsea mossseaweedshamblesshattershipwreckshootslaughtersmashsmashupsmutspoliationsucculentswallow uptear downthrow into disordertoadstooltotal lossunbuildundoundoingunleash destructionunleash the hurricaneunmakeupheavevandalismvandalizevaporizevetchvinewashoutwastewortwrack and ruinwreak havoc
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Translations
18 translations across 10 languages.
Czech
1 entries- vrak noun (the remains, a wreck)
Dutch
1 entries- wraak noun (archaic or literary: revenge, persecution)
French
1 entries- goémon noun (any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus)
Galician
1 entries- carballa noun (any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus)
German
2 entries- Wrack noun (archaic, except in dialects: ruin, destruction)
- Wrack noun (the remains, a wreck)
Hungarian
1 entries- roncs noun (the remains, a wreck)
Korean
4 entries- 박해 noun (archaic or literary: revenge, persecution)
- 복수 noun (archaic or literary: revenge, persecution)
- 잔해 noun (the remains, a wreck)
- 파괴 noun (archaic, except in dialects: ruin, destruction)
Portuguese
1 entries- algaço noun (any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus)
Spanish
3 entries- pecio noun (the remains, a wreck)
- pecio noun ((archaic) remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items)
- restos noun (the remains, a wreck)
Welsh
2 entries- morwiail noun (any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus)
- môr-wialen noun (any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus)
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.
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A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds.
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Nor did the croakers have long to wait. The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern. About one o’clock in the morning there was a terrific impact that threw the slumbering guests and crew from berth and bunk. A mighty shudder ran through the frail craft; she lay far over to starboard; the engines stopped.
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