awrack

English

Etymology

a- +‎ wrack

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈɹæk/

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• Rhymes: -æk

Adverb

awrack (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Wrecked; in ruins.

   By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead.

   • 1866, Thomas Hood, Poems of Wit and Humour, page 54:

     So Dan, by dint of noise, obtains a peace, And with his natural untender knack, By new distress, bids former grievance cease, Like tears dried up with rugged huckaback, That sets the mournful visage all awrack ;

   • 1885, Linn N. Chapin, “AULD ROBIN GRAY”, in The Crown Book of the Beautiful, the Wonderful, and the Wise, page 487:

     But hard blew the winds, and his ship was awrack; His ship it was awrack!

   • 1893, Ralph Adams Cram, Excalibur: An Arthurian Drama:

     Now falls thy kingdom, Morgan, all awrack, For Uther dies, and England waits a king.

   • 1969, Seven - Issues 1-8, page 20:

     Sometimes it almost seems that the writer takes a perverse delight in finding the times out of joint, finding everything awrack and awry.

   • 1995, Guanzhong Luo, Moss Roberts, Three kingdoms - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 93:

     His mighty weapon trailing at his back, His gilded five-hued streamers all awrack.

References

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