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wrack

verb as in destroy

Strongest matches

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England, the top-ranked team and tournament favourites, face a Scotland side wracked by contract disputes and an uncertain future.

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Since then the country - the poorest in the Americas - has been wracked by economic chaos, little functioning political control and increasingly violent gang warfare.

From BBC

Such a quake would be the largest simultaneous disaster in modern California history, with huge swaths of the state wracked by powerful seismic shaking all at once.

“It’s nerve wracking to watch him — you couldn’t get a better match for the fans, but I hated it,” Sinjin said.

For more than a decade Mali has been wracked by a deadly Islamist insurgency, as well as attacks from separatist movements.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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