wrack

1. 1.

   smash or break forcefully

   “The kid busted up the car”

   Synonymsbust upwreck

   Broaderdestroy

Other forms of wrack

plural

wracks·

past tense

wracked·

present participle

wracking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wrack

What does wrack mean?

wrack means "dried seaweed especially that cast ashore". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wrack?

wrack has 1 syllable: wrack. In IPA it is /ˈɹæk/.

What is another word for wrack?

Close synonyms include rack, sea wrack, bust up, wreck. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wrack a common word?

wrack is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with wrack?

1 word rhymes with wrack. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.