Wreckage vs Wrack - What's the difference?
wreckage | wrack |
Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.
(archaic, dialectal, or, literary) Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
(archaic, except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
The remains; a wreck.
(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.
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, year=1892
, year_published=2011
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, author=Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
, title=The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
, chapter=
As nouns the difference between wreckage and wrack
is that wreckage is something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed while wrack is wreck.wreckage
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wrack
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from a merger of (etyl) (m), .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (and (etyl)) (m) (cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)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. }}