Wrack
Wrack is a term with several related meanings in English, spanning nautical, botanical, and coastal contexts. In historical and literary usage, wrack refers to the wreckage or debris left by a ship after it has sunk or broken apart. It is closely related to the modern word wreck, and in older texts the forms can be interchangeable. The phrase wrack and ruin is a common idiom indicating total destruction or dilapidation.
In marine biology and coastal ecology, wrack denotes certain types of brown seaweed that grow on rocky
As a verb, wrack can mean to ruin or cause suffering, but its use is largely archaic
Wrack appears across disciplines and regional usages, but it is most commonly encountered in coastal descriptions,