The word "wracked" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is typically used as a past-tense form of the verb "to rack," meaning to cause someone pain or suffering, either physically or mentally. Example: The young woman was wracked with guilt after lying to her best friend.
As it still is today, the NSW division of the party was wracked with factional fighting and in the grip of lobbyists.
Jagland admitted that the 27-member bloc was not in great shape, wracked by its worst crisis of confidence.
Instead of statistics, there are voices: scarred by shells; wracked with fear; choked by loss; frail with feigned bravery.
When I consider my suppurating private life: my greying hair, my body's abandonment of anything resembling skin tone, I'd have thought I was wracked with, say, inoperable despair, but it isn't so.
It was the second round of talks since Tibet was wracked by anti-Chinese rioting in March.Protests continued in the South Korean capital, Seoul, against the resumption of imports of beef from America.
But the sheer difficulty of getting things done in a plant badly damaged by the initial disaster and wracked with fires, explosions and radiation leaks, as well as having very unreliable supplies of power, seems to mean that no problem is easy to fix.
He has been visiting recession-wracked towns, wooing carefully-chosen journalists and drumming up support on the internet.
But if the Communist Party, which inherited a war-wracked, divided and impoverished nation, could deliver a united, prosperous and, at long last, free and democratic Vietnam, it would surely be rewarded at the ballot-box.
Guilt-wracked judges and bureaucrats began reserving good jobs for women and minorities at a moment of sky-high unemployment.Enter Reagan, a man with the great advantage of believing his own edited, reordered, cheering accounts of the world.
This, his latest, novel features two writers, one wildly successful, the other an envy-wracked failure, who decide to go on a book tour together.
AUSTRALIA'S decision last month to grant temporary political asylum to 42 people from Papua, Indonesia's separatist-wracked half of the island of New Guinea, has caused a collapse in relations between the two big countries.
