noun
- destruction or ruin
- seaweed or other marine vegetation cast ashore by the tide
Usage: nautical
verb
- to cause the destruction or ruin of something
Examples
- The hurricane left wrack and ruin in its wake.
- Storm and wrack had battered the coastal town for days.
- Piles of wrack littered the beach after the storm.
- The children collected colorful wrack along the shoreline.
- Years of neglect would wrack the old building.
- Guilt continued to wrack his conscience.
- The disease began to wrack her body.