n. Destruction or ruin. Used chiefly in the phrase wrack and ruin. [Middle English, from Old English wræc, punishment (influenced by Middle Dutch wrak, shipwreck).] |
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Idiom: wrack (one's) brains/brain To try hard to remember or think of something. [Influenced by WRACK2.] |
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