"storm-wracked" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From earlier “wracked by storm”, in sense wrack (“destroy”). Later sense of “stormy” due to influence by and confusion with rack (“torture, suffer”); see usage notes for rack.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more storm-wracked",
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    },
    {
      "form": "most storm-wracked",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "word": "pain-racked"
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      "glosses": [
        "Destroyed by a storm."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1864 March 12, William Chambers, “Blamyre’s Chambers”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, volume 41, number 11, page 171:",
          "text": "I believe I eloquently spoke of him, when I proposed his health, as one ‘of those daring spirits, who, proudly turning their backs on an old and effete world, pushed forth over the unsociable and storm-wracked seas to seek a golden future in a region teeming with boundless possibilities and wealth, that need only a daring hand to lay it open to the sun.’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dana Gioia, Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto:",
          "text": "I sailed a ship in a storm-wracked sea\nAnd all were lost except for me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Stormy, beset by a storm."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Stormy",
          "stormy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
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      "word": "storm-racked"
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  "word": "storm-wracked"
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  "etymology_text": "From earlier “wracked by storm”, in sense wrack (“destroy”). Later sense of “stormy” due to influence by and confusion with rack (“torture, suffer”); see usage notes for rack.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more storm-wracked",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most storm-wracked",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "pain-racked"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "Destroyed by a storm."
      ],
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          "ref": "1864 March 12, William Chambers, “Blamyre’s Chambers”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, volume 41, number 11, page 171:",
          "text": "I believe I eloquently spoke of him, when I proposed his health, as one ‘of those daring spirits, who, proudly turning their backs on an old and effete world, pushed forth over the unsociable and storm-wracked seas to seek a golden future in a region teeming with boundless possibilities and wealth, that need only a daring hand to lay it open to the sun.’",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Dana Gioia, Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto:",
          "text": "I sailed a ship in a storm-wracked sea\nAnd all were lost except for me.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Stormy, beset by a storm."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Stormy",
          "stormy"
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    {
      "word": "storm-racked"
    }
  ],
  "word": "storm-wracked"
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