Synonyms of the word wrack


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wrack

  • n. (archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
  • n. (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
  • n. The remains; a wreck.
  • v. (Britain dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance; avenge.
  • v. (Britain dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
  • n. (archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
  • n. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.
  • n. Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
  • n. A high flying cloud; a rack.
  • v. (transitive) To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).
  • v. Alternative form of rack To cause to suffer pain, etc.

demolition

  • n. the action of demolishing or destroying, in particular of buildings or other structures.

destroy

  • v. (transitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
  • v. (intransitive) To cause destruction.
  • v. (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
  • v. (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
  • v. (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
  • v. (colloquial, transitive) To defeat soundly.
  • v. (computing, transitive) To remove data.

destruction

  • n. The act of destroying.
  • n. The results of a destructive event.

rack

  • n. A series of one or more shelves, stacked one above the other.
  • n. Any of various kinds of frame for holding clothes, bottles, animal fodder, mined ore, shot on a vessel,…
  • n. (nautical) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes.
  • n. A distaff.
  • n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to…
  • n. A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with a pawl as a ratchet allowing movement in one direction…
  • n. A device, incorporating a ratchet, used to torture victims by stretching them beyond their natural limits.
  • n. A cranequin, a mechanism including a rack, pinion and pawl, providing both mechanical advantage and a…
  • n. A set of antlers (as on deer, moose or elk).
  • n. A cut of meat involving several adjacent ribs.
  • n. (billiards, snooker, pool) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.
  • n. (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
  • n. (climbing, caving) A friction device for abseiling, consisting of a frame with five or more metal bars,…
  • n. (climbing, slang) A climber's set of equipment for setting up protection and belays, consisting of runners,…
  • n. A grate on which bacon is laid.
  • n. (obsolete) That which is extorted; exaction.
  • n. (algebra) A set with a distributive binary operation whose result is unique.
  • v. To place in or hang on a rack.
  • v. To torture (someone) on the rack.
  • v. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
  • v. (figuratively) To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
  • v. (billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
  • v. (slang) To strike a male in the groin with the knee.
  • v. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic…
  • v. (mining) To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
  • v. (nautical) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
  • v. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
  • v. To stretch a person's joints.
  • v. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir.
  • v. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds.
  • n. Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapour in the sky.
  • v. (brewing) To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning…
  • v. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
  • n. A fast amble.
  • n. (obsolete) A wreck; destruction.

ruin

  • n. (countable, sometimes in the plural) The remains of a destroyed or dilapidated construction, such as a…
  • n. (uncountable) The state of being a ruin, destroyed or decayed.
  • n. (uncountable) Something that leads to serious trouble or destruction.
  • n. (obsolete) A fall or tumble.
  • n. A change that destroys or defeats something; destruction; overthrow.
  • v. (transitive) to cause the fiscal ruin of.
  • v. To destroy or make something no longer usable.
  • v. To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business.
  • v. To upset or mess up the plans or progress of, or to put into disarray; to spoil.

seaweed

  • n. Any of numerous marine plants and algae, such as a kelp.

wipeout

  • n. The action of the verb "wipe out".

wreck

  • n. Something or someone that has been ruined.
  • n. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
  • n. An event in which something is damaged through collision.
  • n. (law) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
  • v. To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is…
  • v. To ruin or dilapidate.
  • v. (Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
  • v. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

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