awrack

English

Etymology

a- + wrack

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈɹæk/

Adverb

awrack (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Wrecked; in ruins.
    • 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.
    By the time the storm had blown over the ship was lying awrack on the craggy rocks, all of her crew dead.

References

collinsdictionary.com

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