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  1. 1. n. A thin, flying cloud; a rack. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To rack; to torment. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Wreck; ruin; destruction. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. Coarse seaweed of any kind. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. To wreck. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. dried seaweed especially that cast ashore Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. the destruction or collapse of something Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp Source: wordnet
  10. 10. v. smash or break forcefully Source: wordnet
  11. 11. A thin, flying cloud; a rack. To rack; to torment. [R.] 1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. [Obs.] Chaucer. "A world devote to universal wrack." Milton. wrack and ruin 2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores. 3. (Bot.) Coarse seaweed of any kind. Wrack grass, or Grass wrack (Bot.), eelgrass. To wreck. [Obs.] Dryden. Source: webster
  12. 12. n:7/v:93 n. dried seaweed especially that cast ashore n. the destruction or collapse of something Source: ecdict

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