storm-racked
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Variant of storm-wracked.
Noun[edit]
storm-racked (not comparable)
- (idiomatic, proscribed) Destroyed by a storm.
Usage notes[edit]
Etymologically incorrect, due to confusion of rack (“torture, suffer”) with wrack (“destroy”). Correct is storm-wracked, which is accordingly preferred by style guides; however, both are common and well-established. Unusually, storm-racked replaces wrack with rack; other confusions instead replace rack with wrack. See usage notes for rack for details.