wrack
The remains of somethingThe remains of something; a wreck.
» It was a very nerve-wracking experience.
Das war ein sehr nervenaufreibendes Erlebnis.
Meaning
8 sensesThe remains of something; a wreck.
Wrack
(dialectal)Ruin; destruction.
Wrack
the destruction or collapse of something
(countable, uncountable)Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
dried seaweed especially that cast ashore
(countable, uncountable)Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
(countable, uncountable)A high, flying cloud; a rack.
(UK, archaic, dialectal, literary)Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
(archaic, countable, uncountable)The right to claim such items.
Examples
13 sentencesIt was a very nerve-wracking experience.
deDas war ein sehr nervenaufreibendes Erlebnis.
It was a nerve-wracking experience.
I'd definitely say it's nerve wracking.
Tom and Mary wracked their brains.
It was a nerve-wracking year for Tom.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“miseFrom Middle English wrake, wrache, wreche, from a merger of Old English wracu, wræc (“misery, suffering”) and Old English wrǣċ (“vengeance, revenge”). See also wrake.
Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch wrak, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to drive out”), the source of wreak and wreck. Doublet of vraic.
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