English dictionary
wrack
nounPronunciation
/ɹæk/
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
- (except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
- The remains; a wreck.
verb
- To execute vengeance; avenge.
- To worry; tease; torment.
verb
- To place in or hang on a rack.
- To torture (someone) on the rack.
- To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
- To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
- To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
- To strike a male in the testicles.
- To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
- To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
- To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
- To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
- (structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).
verb
- To stretch a person's joints.
verb
- To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
- To fly, as vapour or broken clouds
verb
- To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.
verb
- (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.
noun
- Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
- Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.
- Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
- A high flying cloud; a rack.
verb
- To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).
Example sentences
Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.