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Definition of: wrack
(rak) noun
1. Marine vegetation and floating material cast ashore by the sea, as seaweed or eelgrass; kelp.
2. The state of being wrecked; ruin; destruction: chiefly in the phrase wrack and ruin.
3. Shipwreck; a wrecked vessel; wreckage.
4. Scot. & Brit. Dial. Weeds.
—v.t. & v.i. To wreck or be wrecked. ♦ Homophone: rack. [Fusion of OE wræc punishment, revenge and MDu. wrak a wreck]
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