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wrack

noun verb

Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.

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Word Facts

Word length
5
Starts with
W
Ends with
K
Contains
RA
Scrabble score
14

How it sounds

Pronunciation

/ɹæk/

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Meaning

Definitions

noun

  1. Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.

  2. (except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.

  3. The remains; a wreck.

verb

  1. To execute vengeance; avenge.

  2. To worry; tease; torment.

verb

  1. To place in or hang on a rack.

  2. To torture (someone) on the rack.

  3. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

  4. To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

  5. To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

  6. To strike a male in the testicles.

  7. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

  8. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.

  9. To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.

  10. To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

  11. (structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).

    “Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.”

verb

  1. To stretch a person's joints.

verb

  1. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir

  2. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

verb

  1. To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

verb

  1. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

noun

  1. Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.

  2. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.

  3. Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.

  4. A high flying cloud; a rack.

verb

  1. To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).

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Example Sentences

Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.

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