Crossword-Solution: WRACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wrack | n. | A thin, flying cloud; a rack. |
| Wrack | v. t. | To rack; to torment. |
| Wrack | n. | Wreck; ruin; destruction. |
| Wrack | n. | Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores. |
| Wrack | n. | Coarse seaweed of any kind. |
| Wrack | v. t. | To wreck. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “WRACK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| __ and ruin | 1 answer |
| VAPOUR mass | 1 answer |
| Subject to suffering | 1 answer |
| Seaweed cast ashore | 1 answer |
| Ruin's companion | 1 answer |
| Mass of seaweed on the shore or floating on the sea | 1 answer |
| Ruin partner | 2 answers |
| FUCUS | 2 answers |
| Ruin's partner | 2 answers |
| Ruin utterly | 4 answers |
| MARINE vegetation | 5 answers |
| Kelp | 8 answers |
| Seaweed | 21 answers |
| torture | 53 answers |
| Downfall | 68 answers |
| Destroy | 69 answers |
| Destruction | 71 answers |
| Ruin | 100 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WRACK (5)
Like as not dey’s a watchman on dat wrack.” “Watchman your grandmother,” I says; “there ain’t nothing to watch but the texas and the pilot-house; and do you reckon anybody’s going to resk his life for a texas and a pilot-house such a night as this, when it’s likely to break up and wash off down the river any minute?” Jim couldn’t say nothing to that, so he didn’t try.
How well I remember every little circumstance in connection with that night! It promised to be tempestuous, for the clouds were piling up in the north-west, and the dark wrack was drifting across the face of the moon, throwing alternate belts of light and shade upon the rugged surface of the island and the restless sea beyond.
When the gentle off-shore breeze, That had scarcely stirred the trees, Dropped down to utter stillness, and the glass began to fall, Away across the main Lowered the coming hurricane, And far away to seaward hung the cloud wrack like a pall.
And the merchants cursed him, bitter and black, For a red flame in the sea-fog's wrack Was all of their ships that might come back.
Nor is that the worst of it, for this foreigner and his paramour are suffered to transact the State affairs, while the Prince takes the salary and leaves all things to go to wrack.
Quotes with WRACK (3)
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides me; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of it surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garland crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms dr…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1970–2022).