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Wracked vs Wrecked - What's the difference?

wracked | wrecked |

As verbs the difference between wracked and wrecked

is that wracked is past tense of wrack while wrecked is past tense of wreck.

As an adjective wrecked is

destroyed in an accident etc.

wracked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wrack)

    • wrack

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from a merger of (etyl) (m), .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, dialectal, or, literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
  • (archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
  • The remains; a wreck.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To execute vengeance; avenge.
  • To worry; tease; torment.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (and (etyl)) (m) (cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
  • Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus .
  • Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
  • A high flying cloud; a rack.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1892 , year_published=2011 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the clouds. }}
    Derived terms
    * channelled wrack * flat wrack * spiral wrack

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive ).
  • To cause to suffer pain, etc.

    • Anagrams

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    wrecked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • destroyed in an accident etc
  • (slang) drunk

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (wreck)