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storm-wracked en · ADJ

Etymology

From earlier “wracked by storm”, in sense wrack (“destroy”). Later sense of “stormy” due to influence by and confusion with rack (“torture, suffer”); see usage notes for rack.

Meanings

1. Destroyed by a storm.
2. Stormy, beset by a storm.
   • I sailed a ship in a storm-wracked sea And all were lost except for me. 2001, Dana Gioia, Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto:
   • I believe I eloquently spoke of him, when I proposed his health, as one ‘of those daring spirits, who, proudly turning their backs on an old and effete world, pushed forth over the unsociable and storm-wracked seas to seek a golden future in a region teeming with boundless possibilities and wealth, that need only a daring hand to lay it open to the sun.’ 1864 March 12, William Chambers, “Blamyre’s Chambers”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, volume 41, number 11, page 171:

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pain-racked