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† Wrack v.1. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. † Wrack v.1 Obs. Forms: 3 wracken, 4–5 wrak, 6 wracke. [Irreg. var. of WREAK. Cf. brack, brak, for BREAK v.]

1   1.  trans. To avenge or revenge (a person, deed, etc.); to punish. Also const. on.

2 c. 1205.  Lay., 20256. Baldulf … þencheð in þissere nihte to slæn þe … to wracken his broðer.

3 a. 1300.  Body & Soul, in Map’s Poems (Camden), 338. Merci criende lutel availede, ȝwan Crist it wolde so harde wrac.

4 [1871.  Waddell, Psalm xviii. 47. The God wha wracks a’ right for me.]

5   2.  To give vent to or wreak (spite, malice, etc.).

6 1635.  J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 199. The King went to wrack his spite on their corpes.

7 1644.  J. Fary, Gods Severity (1645), 21. You … must needs wrack your malice by revenge.

8 1720.  Prior, Cupid Mistaken, iii. Couldst thou find none other, To wrack [ed. 1709 wreck] thy spleen on?

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