wracks

verb

  1. 1

    To place in or hang on a rack.

  2. 2

    To torture (someone) on the rack.

  3. 3

    To cause (someone) to suffer pain.

  4. 4

    To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.

  5. 5

    To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.

  6. 6

    To strike a male in the testicles.

  7. 7

    To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.

  8. 8

    To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.

  9. 9

    To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.

  10. 10

    To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.

  11. 11

    (structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).

    Post-and-lintel construction racks easily.

Synonyms

verb

  1. 1

    To stretch a person's joints.

verb

  1. 1

    To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir

  2. 2

    To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

verb

  1. 1

    To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

verb

  1. 1

    (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

noun

  1. 1

    Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.

  2. 2

    (except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.

  3. 3

    The remains; a wreck.

verb

  1. 1

    To execute vengeance; avenge.

  2. 2

    To worry; tease; torment.

noun

  1. 1

    Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.

  2. 2

    Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.

  3. 3

    Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.

  4. 4

    A high flying cloud; a rack.

verb

  1. 1

    To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).

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