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wrackful

adj

Etymology

From Middle English wrakeful, wrakful, equivalent to wrack + -ful. See also wrake.

  1. inherited from wrakeful

Definitions

  1. ruinous

    ruinous; destructive.

    • No longer surrounded by a wooden shell in a wrackful sea, but by an aluminum box in its slot with all the other boxes, he stared at the pinwheel of stars on the cover of his library book.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA