wrack
noun
wreck or wreckage.
have wracked
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present perfectof wrack.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Protests against food and medicine shortages have wracked Cuba since mid-July.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
And Mickey’s rock-and-roll antics have wracked his body.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2019
I have wracked my brain thinking about how this partnership might have been hatched.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019
I wrote to ask him whether Berliners had somehow felt exempt from the sort of attacks that have wracked cities like London, Paris and Nice, France.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2016
Federalism questions have wracked the nation since the start of the Republic.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2011
