wrack

On his way to his meeting with Greenblatt, Burry was wracked with the anxiety that always plagued him before face-to-face encounters with people.

Ever since early July, the team had lived in a world blanketed by frustration and wracked with repeated misery.

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

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

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.