ppl. a. [f. WRACK v.2 + -ED1.] That has undergone or suffered wreck, esp. shipwreck; ruined, destroyed.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, I. 15. Yeelding the Greekes a thorough feare, the Troyans courage hie, so that the wracked Campe restore his credite worthilie.
1608. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iv. Schisme, 371. A hundred Prophets … from sad drowning keep The wracked planks on th’ Idol-Ocean deep.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, IV. lxxxv. When loe an angry Sea … on its proud waves bears In dreadfull triumph a wrack’d Man.
1652. Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 157. Those wrack’t goods that had been seized by the Receivers of his Customs.
1747. New Canto Spenser’s F. Q., xxiii. The wrack’d Merchant, now secure, from Shore Looks back with Dread on all his Perils past.
1864. Mrs. Lloyd, Ladies Polc., 17. Every body’s troubles is her troubles, from a wracked boat to a broken putcher!
1875. Morris, Æneid, IX. 263. Two cups … which my father took from wracked Arisbe’s hold.
