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5 lettersPronunciation /ɹæk/Part of speech noun, verbSorted ackrwStarts with WEnds with K0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. dried seaweed especially that cast ashore

Word origin

From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.

Used in a sentence

  • Lytle was already moaning in shame, fallen back in bed with his hand across his face like he'd just washed up somewhere, a piece of wrack.
  • The dead mans corps hath made ſome Serpents weépe, / Such rewth may ryſe in beaſts of bloudy race: / And yet can man (which bragges aboue the reſt) / Uſe wracke for rewth? can murder like him beſt?
  • Therefore, in sign her treasure suffered wrack, Since Hero's time hath half the world been black.

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