wrack

折磨、使痛苦、使受煎熬常用被動

She was wracked with guilt after the argument with her mother.

和母親吵架後，她深受罪惡感的折磨。

苦思、絞盡腦汁口語

He wracked his brains trying to remember where he left the keys.

他絞盡腦汁想回想鑰匙到底放在哪裡。

摧毀、破壞正式

Years of civil war wracked the country's economy beyond repair.

多年內戰把這個國家的經濟摧毀到無法挽回。

毀滅、崩壞多用於 wrack and ruin

The old factory has gone to wrack and ruin since it closed.

那間老工廠自從歇業後就日漸荒廢崩壞。

漂積海藻、岸邊海草不可數

Piles of wrack lay drying along the windswept beach.

一堆堆海藻曬在風勢強勁的海灘上。