WRACKED Synonyms: 162 Similar and Opposite Words

wracked

verb

past tense of wrack

as in destroyed

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of it's amazing how a raging sea can wrack a seemingly sturdy beachfront home

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Recent Examples of wracked End-stage liver disease wracked her body. —

Literary Hub, 3 June 2026 The city, long wracked by gun violence, has come to have virtually no licensed dealers within its boundaries; those that remain are mostly in the suburbs. —

Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 June 2026 That is hindering efforts to stop the spread of the virus and track those at risk in an area already wracked by conflict and with poor health infrastructure, health officials said. —

Jennifer Rigby, USA Today, 28 May 2026 Rowe wracked her brain for something, or someone, who might be able to help her sister. —

Kavitha Surana, CNN Money, 28 May 2026 Johnston plays poor Bear as a quivering mess wracked with guilt that this monster — who used to be his friend — is the result of his own terrible decision-making. —

Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 23 May 2026 But complications ensue as a romantic triangle forms, echoed in both timelines, and Suzanne begins to have genuine feelings for Antoine, an innocent wracked with misplaced guilt over his wife’s death. —

David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026 Those differences have been sharply felt in Yemen, Saudi Arabia’s impoverished southern neighbor wracked by a complex civil war since 2014. —

Raf Sanchez, NBC news, 29 Apr. 2026 Returning to Haiti and Syria is out of the question for many people because those countries remain wracked with violence and instability, said Sejal Zota, co-founder and legal director of Just Futures Law. —

Lindsay Whitehurst, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026

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Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed more than 350 Ukrainian drones over territories both close to the border but also as further afield as Moscow, St Petersburg, and Novgorod in the country’s west, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
Twelve people were killed, including two young boys, in the southeastern city of Dnipro, where a four-story apartment building was partially destroyed, local officials said.

— Valentyn Ogirenko, USA Today, 2 June 2026