wrack

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It made me really wrack my brain to come up with as many "skills" as possible.

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dried seaweed especially that cast ashore

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noun

dried seaweed especially that cast ashore

noun

the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"

noun

growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for wrack.

noun

dried seaweed especially that cast ashore

noun

the destruction or collapse of something; "wrack and ruin"

noun

growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

verb

smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"

Example sentences

It made me really wrack my brain to come up with as many "skills" as possible.

>I often wrack my brain trying to think, what changed...A subculture can only exist if there's a barrier to entry.

Also, if it's not a model known to have this kind of problem, wrack your brain to see if you can figure out if there's an environmental issue.

I don't want to wrack my brain with an over-engineered abstraction, but I also don't want to squirt the same 15 lines of code all over the codebase.

Cells are extremely good at controlling levels of ions because any significant difference to normal conditions tends to wrack havoc on their machinery.

"If you just ask a question about whether they do unit testing, you'll get a suitably vague and chirpy response, but specifics will normally get you a clearer answer - usually starting with a few seconds of embarrassed shuffling in their seat while they wrack their brains :>