wrack  /r'æk/

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資料來源(1): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Wrack \Wrack\, v. t.
     To wreck. [Obs.] --Dryden.

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Wrack \Wrack\, n.
     A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Wrack \Wrack\, v. t.
     To rack; to torment. [R.]

資料來源(4): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Wrack \Wrack\, n. [OE. wrak wreck. See {Wreck}.]
     1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] --Chaucer. ``A world
        devote to universal wrack.'' --Milton.

資料來源(5): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[ae]c exile, persecution,
     misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak,
     adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw
     off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a
     wreck, Dan. vrag. See {Wreak}, v. t., and cf. {Wrack} a
     marine plant.] [Written also {wrack}.]
     1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on
        shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the
        force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
  
              Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging
              floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate,
              Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.
                                                    --Spenser.
  
     2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence;
        ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
  
              The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
                                                    --Addison.
  
              Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst
              the wreck of its political life.      --J. R. Green.
  
     3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks
        or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by
        violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
  
     4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
  
              To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of
              what I was, fatigued I come.          --Cowper.
  
     5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon
        the land by the sea. --Bouvier.

資料來源(6): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  wrack
       n 1: dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
       2: the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"
          [syn: {rack}]
       3: growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms
          such as rockweeds and kelp [syn: {sea wrack}]
       v : smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" [syn:
            {bust up}, {wreck}]