This seems like a typo and I’m surprised this haven’t been noticed yet.
“Wracking your brain” and “Nerve-wracking”
Every day is a school day. I never knew wrack is an actual verb.
it’s a very very old form of the word used in the term “wrack and ruin” and other little wittisisms almost exclusively now, a variant turns up in paradise lost apparently. english likes to use those little two descriptive word couplets often in a legal context -assault and battery, breaking and entering, drunk and disorderly, etc.
I don’t think it’s a typo but is a little redundant:
A phrase with historical context.
But essentially means to utterly ruin… PLUS ruin. Just in case ruin it twice.
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