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1 wrack
1. n1) водорість, викинута на берег моря2) викинуте на берег (ріки, моря)3) уламки корабля (після аварії)4) поет. руйнування, розоренняwrack and ruin — цілковита руйнація; загибель
5) поет. відплата; помста; ворожнеча; переслідування6) розвалите7) сміття, мотлох; погань2. v1) руйнувати; занапащати2) руйнуватися, гинути* * *I [rʒk] n1) водорості, викинуті на берег моря2) рештки кораблекрушіння; залишки розбитого суднаII [rʒk] n2) icт. відплата3) розвалинаIII [rʒk] v
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wrack and ruin — Synonyms and related words: bloodbath, blue ruin, breakup, carnage, consumption, damnation, decimation, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destruction, devastation, disintegration, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, havoc … Moby Thesaurus
go to wrack and ruin — {v. phr.} To fall apart and be ruined; to become useless. * /The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved./ * /The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather./ … Dictionary of American idioms
go to wrack and ruin — {v. phr.} To fall apart and be ruined; to become useless. * /The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved./ * /The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather./ … Dictionary of American idioms
go\ to\ wrack\ and\ ruin — v. phr. To fall apart and be ruined; to become useless. The barn went to wrack and ruin after the farmer moved. The car will soon go to wrack and ruin standing out in all kinds of weather … Словарь американских идиом
go to wrack and ruin — go to rack/wrack and ruin old fashioned if a building goes to rack and ruin, its condition becomes very bad because no one is taking care of it. She s let that house go to rack and ruin since Clive died … New idioms dictionary
go to rack and ruin — go to rack/wrack and ruin old fashioned if a building goes to rack and ruin, its condition becomes very bad because no one is taking care of it. She s let that house go to rack and ruin since Clive died … New idioms dictionary
rack and ruin — Meaning Destitution. Origin Rack here is a corruption of wrack or wreck … Meaning and origin of phrases
wrack — Synonyms and related words: algae, autophyte, bean, bloodbath, blue ruin, bracken, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, brown algae, carnage, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave in, climber, collapse, condemn, conferva, confervoid,… … Moby Thesaurus
wrack — {{11}}wrack (n.) late 14c., wrecked ship, probably from M.Du. wrak wreck, cognate with O.E. wræc misery, punishment, and wrecan to punish, drive out (see WREAK (Cf. wreak)). The meaning damage, disaster, destruction (in wrack and ruin) is from… … Etymology dictionary
ruin — Synonyms and related words: Waterloo, abuse, afterglow, afterimage, ancient manuscript, annihilate, antique, antiquity, archaism, artifact, assault, atrophy, attack, baffle, balance, balk, bane, bankrupt, bankruptcy, barbarize, batter, beat, beat … Moby Thesaurus
ruin — n 1. devastation, desolation, ravagement, havoc, destruction; dilapidation, ruination, wreck, wreckage, wrack, wrack and ruin; disruption, upheaval; crash, collision, crack up. 2. overthrow, overturn, subversion, suppression, subdual, conquest;… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder