awrack
/əˈɹæk/
awrack adverb: wrecked; in ruins.
Adverb
awrack (not comparable)
- Wrecked; in ruins.
- By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead.
- So Dan, by dint of noise, obtains a peace, And with his natural untender knack, By new distress, bids former grievance cease, Like tears dried up with rugged huckaback, That sets the mournful visage all awrack ;1866, Thomas Hood, Poems of Wit and Humour, page 54
Examples of awrack in a sentence
- But hard blew the winds, and his ship was awrack; His ship it was awrack!1885, Linn N. Chapin, “AULD ROBIN GRAY”, in The Crown Book of the Beautiful, the Wonderful, and the Wise, page 487:
- Now falls thy kingdom, Morgan, all awrack, For Uther dies, and England waits a king.1893, Ralph Adams Cram, Excalibur: An Arthurian Drama:
- Sometimes it almost seems that the writer takes a perverse delight in finding the times out of joint, finding everything awrack and awry.1969, Seven - Issues 1-8, page 20:
- His mighty weapon trailing at his back, His gilded five-hued streamers all awrack.1995, Luo Guanzhong, translated by Moss Roberts, Three kingdoms - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 93:
Origin of awrack
From a- + wrack.
Words that rhyme with awrack
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- plaque
- whack
- slack
- Cadillac
- swack
- thwack
- pac
- shack
- bivouac
- cack
- clack
- gack
- lack
- smack
- unpack
- wrack
- aback
- flak
- hark back
- mack
- claque
- flack
- knack
- quack
- shellac
- snack
- yak
- Aach
- ack
- gak
- mac
- Meshach
- multitrack
- plack
- snacc
- wack
- akh
- alack
- brach
- cac
- Cayman Brac
- Chiraq
- cook back
- craic
- diclofenac
- dictionary attack
- dime back
- fac
Questions about awrack
- What does awrack mean?
- Awrack means wrecked; in ruins.
- How do you use awrack in a sentence?
- But hard blew the winds, and his ship was awrack; His ship it was awrack!
- What part of speech is awrack?
- Awrack is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce awrack?
- Awrack is pronounced /əˈɹæk/ (UK).
Words near awrack in the dictionary
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