Wreck & Ruin (Tarnished Angels Motorcycle Club Book 1)

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Rack and wrack are often confused, and there are some ways in which one may easily distinguish between the two words. Rack [one’s] brain is one common phrase in which rack in the torture-related sense is figuratively extended. ability damage if the target is stunned or bound to 40%-140% ability damage and 30% increase if the target is bound or stunned.

Rack and wrack in phrases such as “(w)rack one’s brain” have been used interchangeably so frequently that either spelling is fine to use. However, some usage commentators suggest using rack in the phrases “rack one’s brain” and “nerve-racking” and save wrack for boat- and storm-related imagery, such as “storm-wracked” and “wrack and ruin”. The two words did come from different sources— rack is thought to be from the Middle Dutch word recken, meaning “to stretch,” and wrack comes from the Middle English word for a shipwreck, wrak—and do retain different meanings. You should use the noun wrack for those happy moments in your life when you need to refer to a wrecked ship or some form of marine vegetation. Though 'rack' and 'wrack' come from different sources, treating them as variants of the same word may be the most sensible approach.The stun from Impact is too short for Wrack to deal its boosted damage, because Impact stuns the target for 1. When the player is using the Exsanguinate spell and has 12 stacks of Blood Tithe, this ability changes into Wrack and Ruin. It is often useful to use Wrack in alternation with other abilities to avoid having most basics on cooldown, though in most scenarios it is not advisable to do so because of low damage output as a result. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. We can think of nerve-wracking as meaning wrecking the nerves instead of torturing the nerves, in which case the spelling is perfectly justifiable.

The one common phrase in which wrack undoubtedly makes more sense is wrack and ruin, which is just an emphatic, somewhat archaic-sounding way of saying wreckage or ruin or, in other words, great destruction. However, wrack has so often been used as a variant spelling of rack, especially when used in the phrases “(w)rack one’s brain” and “(w)racked with pain,” that many dictionaries now list it as a variant.

And since wrack comes from a background of nautical destruction, this word should be used to indicate either wreckage ( storm-wracked) or destruction ( wrack and ruin).

But this doesn’t change the fact that nerve-racking is the original form, the more common one, and the one that is generally preferred in edited writing, for what that’s worth. IT is scandalous that the Borough Theatre on Wallsend High Street, dark for many a long year, is being allowed to go to rack and ruin when it could be brought back to life as have many other old theatres around the country that continue to serve the public for a variety of tastes. Note: You can also say that something falls into rack and ruin During these years, historical monuments were allowed to fall into rack and ruin. Probably the most sensible attitude would be to ignore the etymologies of rack and wrack (which, of course, is exactly what most people do) and regard them simply as spelling variants of one word. Then you will have nothing to worry about being criticized for—except, of course, for using too many clichés.Rack up has several definitions, including (1) to accumulate, and (2) to prepare billiard balls for the start of a game. Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017 go to ˌrack and ˈruin get into bad condition because of lack of care: The house has gone to rack and ruin over the last few years. So, figuratively speaking, to rack something is to torture it, especially in manner that resembles stretching. Well, the verb forms of these two words are often muddled, and here there is no easy way of distinguishing between them. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Since it works against bound targets and not only stunned ones, targets bound with Ice spells will also trigger Wrack's extra damage, something that can be taken advantage of when using a lot of auto-attacks in conjunction with abilities, such as when doing 4taa rotations. There is no simple and easy answer to which word you should use in this setting, but we may provide you with some form of guidance. One problem with this is that oftentimes we find that not only will ordinary users of the language vary in terms of which variant they use, but usage guides will offer contradictory advice on these matters.These expressions are emphatic redundancies, since rack and wrack (which are actually variants of the same word) mean "destruction" or "ruin. This might sort of make sense in some figurative uses, but rack is the standard spelling where the phrase means to think very hard. These words originally meant utter destruction and financial ruin, rack here being a variant of wreck (it was sometimes spelled wrack, showing the close association). You hang your clothes on a rack, eat a rack of lamb, and, if you are a medieval torture enthusiast, attach someone to a rack to be stretched until bones are broken or joints dislocated.