wrack 音标拼音: [r'æk]
n . 冲上岸之海草,失事船只,破坏
vt . 彻底毁坏
wrack n 1 :
dried seaweed especially that cast ashore 2 :
the destruction or collapse of something ; "
wrack and ruin "
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synonym : {
wrack }, {
rack }]
3 :
growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp [
synonym : {
sea wrack }, {
wrack }]
v 1 :
smash or break forcefully ; "
The kid busted up the car "
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synonym : {
bust up }, {
wreck }, {
wrack }]
Wrack \
Wrack \,
n .
A thin ,
flying cloud ;
a rack .
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Wrack \
Wrack \,
v .
t .
To rack ;
to torment . [
R .]
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Wrack \
Wrack \,
n . [
OE .
wrak wreck .
See {
Wreck }.]
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1 .
Wreck ;
ruin ;
destruction . [
Obs .] --
Chaucer . "
A world devote to universal wrack ." --
Milton .
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2 .
Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore ,
especially plants of the genera {
Fucus }, {
Laminaria },
and {
Zostera },
which are most abundant on northern shores .
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3 . (
Bot .)
Coarse seaweed of any kind .
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{
Wrack grass },
or {
Grass wrack } (
Bot .),
eelgrass .
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Wrack \
Wrack \,
v .
t .
To wreck . [
Obs .] --
Dryden .
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Wreck \
Wreck \,
n . [
OE .
wrak ,
AS .
wr [
ae ]
c exile ,
persecution ,
misery ,
from wrecan to drive out ,
punish ;
akin to D .
wrak ,
adj .,
damaged ,
brittle ,
n .,
a wreck ,
wraken to reject ,
throw off ,
Icel .
rek a thing drifted ashore ,
Sw .
vrak refuse ,
a wreck ,
Dan .
vrag .
See {
Wreak },
v .
t .,
and cf . {
Wrack }
a marine plant .] [
Written also {
wrack }.]
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1 .
The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore ,
or on rocks ,
or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves ;
shipwreck .
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Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods ,
'
Gainst which a ship ,
of succor desolate ,
Doth suffer wreck ,
both of herself and goods .
--
Spenser .
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2 .
Destruction or injury of anything ,
especially by violence ;
ruin ;
as ,
the wreck of a railroad train .
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The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds .
--
Addison .
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Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life . --
J .
R .
Green .
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3 .
The ruins of a ship stranded ;
a ship dashed against rocks or land ,
and broken ,
or otherwise rendered useless ,
by violence and fracture ;
as ,
they burned the wreck .
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4 .
The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured .
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To the fair haven of my native home ,
The wreck of what I was ,
fatigued I come . --
Cowper .
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5 . (
Law )
Goods ,
etc .,
which ,
after a shipwreck ,
are cast upon the land by the sea . --
Bouvier .
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138 Moby Thesaurus words for "
wrack ":
algae ,
autophyte ,
bean ,
bloodbath ,
blue ruin ,
bracken ,
breakdown ,
breaking up ,
breakup ,
bring to ruin ,
brown algae ,
carnage ,
cataclysm ,
catastrophe ,
cave ,
cave -
in ,
climber ,
collapse ,
condemn ,
conferva ,
confervoid ,
confound ,
consume ,
consumption ,
crack -
up ,
crash ,
creeper ,
damn ,
damnation ,
deal destruction ,
debacle ,
decimate ,
decimation ,
demolish ,
depredate ,
depredation ,
desolate ,
desolation ,
despoil ,
despoilment ,
despoliation ,
destroy ,
destruction ,
devastate ,
devastation ,
devour ,
diatom ,
disaster ,
disintegration ,
disorganization ,
disruption ,
dissolution ,
dissolve ,
engorge ,
fern ,
fruits and vegetables ,
fucus ,
fungus ,
gobble ,
gobble up ,
grapevine ,
green algae ,
gulfweed ,
gut ,
gut with fire ,
havoc ,
hecatomb ,
herb ,
heterophyte ,
holocaust ,
incinerate ,
ivy ,
kelp ,
lay in ruins ,
lay waste ,
legume ,
lentil ,
liana ,
lichen ,
liverwort ,
mold ,
moss ,
mushroom ,
parasite ,
parasitic plant ,
pea ,
perdition ,
perthophyte ,
phytoplankton ,
planktonic algae ,
plant families ,
puffball ,
pulse ,
ravage ,
raze ,
red algae ,
rockweed ,
ruin ,
ruinate ,
ruination ,
rust ,
saprophyte ,
sargasso ,
sargassum ,
sea lentil ,
sea moss ,
sea wrack ,
seaweed ,
shambles ,
shipwreck ,
slaughter ,
smash ,
smashup ,
smut ,
spoliation ,
succulent ,
swallow up ,
throw into disorder ,
toadstool ,
total loss ,
unbuild ,
undo ,
undoing ,
unleash destruction ,
unleash the hurricane ,
unmake ,
upheave ,
vandalism ,
vandalize ,
vaporize ,
vetch ,
vine ,
washout ,
waste ,
wort ,
wrack and ruin ,
wreak havoc ,
wreck
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