awrack

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UK/əˈɹæk/

adverb

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.”

Scrabble 15

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adverbawrack (not comparable)
  1. archaicnot comparableWrecked; in ruins.

    By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead.

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    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

    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

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