| 单词 | wrack |
| 释义 | wrack (once / 6840 pages) 1nv 2n 3n Wrack is when something falls into disrepair. When an old house deteriorates, you can describe its wrack, or the process of its crumbling collapse. You're most likely to come across the noun wrack in the phrase "go to wrack and ruin." This is a descriptive way to talk about the collapse or gradual breakdown of something, either literal — "I hate to see that building go to wrack and ruin," or figurative — "Their marriage went to wrack and ruin after a year." In the fourteenth century, a wrack was a shipwreck, from the Middle Dutch wrak, or "wreck." WORD FAMILYwrack: wracked, wracking, wracks USAGE EXAMPLESInstead, Jim, wracked by loneliness after a year in luxe isolation, wakes Aurora up himself, essentially dooming her to live and die at his side. Slate(Dec 20, 2016) These problems aren’t the worst aspects of a democratic process wracked by voter suppression. Slate(Dec 05, 2016) Wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen wrack the region, and virulent forms of extremism threaten all the other states. The New Yorker(Dec 04, 2016) 1 1n the destruction or collapse of something wrack and ruin Syn|Hyper rack demolition, destruction, wipeout an event (or the result of an event) that completely destroys something 2v smash or break forcefully 2Syn|Hyper bust up, wreck destroy, ruin destroy completely; damage irreparably n growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp 3Syn|Hyper sea wrack seaweed plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae n dried seaweed especially that cast ashore Hyper seaweed plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae |
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