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storm-wracked

storm-wracked adjective: destroyed by a storm.

Adjective

storm-wracked (comparative more storm-wracked, superlative most storm-wracked)

  1. Destroyed by a storm.
  2. Stormy, beset by a storm.
    • I believe I eloquently spoke of him, when I proposed his health, as one ‘of those daring spirits, who, proudly turning their backs on an old and effete world, pushed forth over the unsociable and storm-wracked seas to seek a golden future in a region teeming with boundless possibilities and wealth...1864 March 12, William Chambers, “Blamyre’s Chambers”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, volume 41, number 11, page 171
    • I sailed a ship in a storm-wracked sea
      And all were lost except for me.2001, Dana Gioia, Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto

Forms of storm-wracked

comparativemore storm-wracked
superlativemost storm-wracked
alternative formstorm-racked

Origin of storm-wracked

From earlier “wracked by storm”, in sense wrack (“destroy”). Later sense of “stormy” due to influence by and confusion with rack (“torture, suffer”); see usage notes for rack.

Questions about storm-wracked

What does storm-wracked mean?
Storm-wracked means destroyed by a storm.
What part of speech is storm-wracked?
Storm-wracked is an adjective.

Words near storm-wracked in the dictionary

  1. storm-swept
  2. storm-trooper
  3. storm-troopers
  4. storm-voice
  5. storm-voices
  6. storm-wracked
  7. stormable
  8. Stormare
  9. stormbird
  10. stormbirds
  11. stormbound

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