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Wracked meaning

simple past and past participle of wrack

Using Wracked

  • The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of wrack
  • In the example corpus, wracked often appears in combinations such as: wracked by, wracked with, been wracked.

Context around Wracked

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 14 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Wracked

  • In this selection, "wracked" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, violence, now, mirth, sahel, condition and writer stand out and add context to how "wracked" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a grief wracked writer navigate and a year wracked with war. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "wracked" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with wracked

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Dalia Guerrero is wracked with worry. (6 words)

Myanmar has been wracked by violence since the military’s 2021 coup. (12 words)

From his home in Colorado, Henkel was wracked with hopelessness during the botched troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. (17 words)

The final production of Artist Rep's sees a grief-wracked writer navigate a weird-out ghostwriting gig: He's hired to pen the biography of a wealthy man who was acquitted of his wife's murder on a technicality. (40 words)

One case in point is the planned closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility in California, which was given an eight-year reprieve by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 after a series of blackouts wracked the state. (37 words)

He had quit his previous job in eastern China's Zhejiang province to move closer to his family in Beijing, and was now wracked with anxiety about his prospects after a fruitless few weeks of searching. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

After that incident I tried as much as I could to avoid her, despite her insistence that we have another tryst, because I was wracked with guilt by what we had done along the way.

Curb Your Enthusiasm has wracked up 51 Primetime Emmy nominations and somehow only walked away with two wins.

From his home in Colorado, Henkel was wracked with hopelessness during the botched troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Ghazouani, who has overseen the West African country’s relative stability in the violence-wracked Sahel, is widely expected to seek re-election next year, though he has not confirmed his plans.

He called for climate talks in Dubai this month to mark a "clear turning point" for a world already wracked by increasing floods, heatwaves and storms.

He had quit his previous job in eastern China's Zhejiang province to move closer to his family in Beijing, and was now wracked with anxiety about his prospects after a fruitless few weeks of searching.

If successful, Flind will be stunned with the Mirth-Wracked condition, making them unable to take any actions, bonus actions, or reactions until they are damaged.

In his eight contests with the Pats since the break, the Regina captain has wracked up 17 goals (including three hat tricks) and eight assists.

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It was a year wracked with war, oppression, poverty, inequality, health disparities, economic instability, ecological decline—all the usual suspects.

Myanmar has been wracked by violence since the military’s 2021 coup.

On the day of this conversation, the injury-wracked are mired in a losing streak that will soon reach seven games, their roughest stretch of the season.

Some gamers have practically been playing around the clock since last weekend and, as a community, they have wracked up some significant statistics.

The final production of Artist Rep's sees a grief-wracked writer navigate a weird-out ghostwriting gig: He's hired to pen the biography of a wealthy man who was acquitted of his wife's murder on a technicality.

The incident was the latest in more than a year-long surge of violence that has wracked the West Bank under Israel’s most right-wing government in history.

As the latest crisis in the violence-wracked Caribbean nation spiraled, gunfire shut down some flights at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Haiti's capital.

Dalia Guerrero is wracked with worry.

Her father Sigifredo Márquez Trujillo, was targeted in an attack just two months ago when a car he was in was wracked with gunfire.

He rose to prominence in the 1980s, spending lavishly and befriending athletes, as the city was wracked by murders tied to the drug trade.

One case in point is the planned closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility in California, which was given an eight-year reprieve by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 after a series of blackouts wracked the state.

On Friday, electoral authorities reported that assailants burned a house where ballots were being stored ahead of Sunday in the violence-wracked town of Chicomuselo, in the southern state of Chiapas.

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Common combinations with wracked

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "wracked" in a sentence?
An example: "After that incident I tried as much as I could to avoid her, despite her insistence that we have another tryst, because I was wracked with guilt by what we had done along the way." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "wracked" from authentic English texts.
What does "wracked" mean?
Wracked means: simple past and past participle of wrack
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