Meaning & use
wrack
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Destruction or ruin, especially in the phrase "wrack and ruin"; also, seaweed or wreckage washed ashore.
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The abandoned factory had fallen into wrack and ruin over the decades.
Strands of wrack lined the beach after the storm.
A note on using this word
Often confused with "rack," as in "nerve-racking"; both spellings are historically related, but "wrack" survives mainly in the fixed phrase "wrack and ruin."
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