a-wrackadv.
/əˈrak/ In a state of wreck or ruin.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adverb] > in ruins
at (also in) wrack1586
a-wrack1627
a-wreck1878
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 41 If she split or sinke, shee is awracke.
1826 T. Hood Irish Schoolmaster xx, in Whims & Oddities 129 Like tears dried up with rugged huckaback, That sets the mournful visage all awrack. [The sense here is doubtful.]
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