Usually means: Seaweed or wreckage washed ashore.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrack: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wrack: Merriam-Webster
  3. wrack, wrack, wrack, wrack, wrack, wrack: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wrack, wrack: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wrack: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wrack: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wrack, wrack: Wordnik
  8. wrack: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wrack: Wiktionary
  10. wrack: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wrack: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wrack: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wrack: Dictionary.com
  14. wrack (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Wrack (novel), Wrack (seaweed), Wrack (video game): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wrack: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wrack: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wrack: Rhymezone
  19. Wrack (nt), Wrack: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wrack: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. wrack: Robb: German English
  22. wrack: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wrack: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. wrack: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. wrack: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrack: Legal dictionary

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  1. wrack: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wrack: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wrack: Idioms
  2. wrack: Wordcraft Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Wrack: Latitude Mexico

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic, dialectal or literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
noun:  (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
noun:  The remains of something; a wreck.
verb:  (UK dialectal, transitive) To execute vengeance on; avenge.
verb:  (UK dialectal, transitive) To worry; tease; torment.
noun:  (archaic)
noun:  Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
noun:  The right to claim such items.
noun:  Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
noun:  Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
noun:  A high, flying cloud; a rack.
verb:  (transitive, usually passive voice) To wreck, especially a ship.
verb:  Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”) [To place in or hang on a rack.]

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