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wrackt

wrackt is the simple past and past participle of wrack.

Meaning of wrack

Verb (1)

wrack (third-person singular simple present wracks, present participle wracking, simple past and past participle wracked)

  1. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance on; avenge.
  2. (UK, dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.

Verb (2)

wrack (third-person singular simple present wracks, present participle wracking, simple past and past participle wracked or wrackt)

  1. (transitive, usually passive voice) To wreck, especially a ship.
    • Nor did the croakers have long to wait. The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern. About one o’clock in the morning there was a terrific impact that threw the slumbering guests and crew from berth and bunk. A mighty shudder ran through...1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 115

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Questions about wrackt

What is wrackt the simple past and past participle of?
Wrackt is the simple past and past participle of wrack.

Words near wrackt in the dictionary

  1. wrackingly
  2. wrackline
  3. wracklines
  4. wracks
  5. wracks one's brain
  6. wrackt
  7. WRAF
  8. Wragby
  9. Wragg
  10. Wragge
  11. wraggle

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