wrack

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
2. 2
   Ruin; destruction.
3. 3
   The remains of something; a wreck.
4. 4
   Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore; flotsam or jetsam.
5. 5
   The right to claim such items.
6. 6
   Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the family Fucaceae.
7. 7
   Weeds, vegetation, or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
8. 8
   A high, flying cloud; a rack.

Verb

1. 1
   To execute vengeance on; avenge.
2. 2
   To worry; tease; torment.
3. 3
   To wreck, especially a ship.
4. 4
   Alternative form of rack (“to cause to suffer pain, etc.”).