Cryptic crossword clue
Destruction of marine vegetation? 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word WRACK

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The straight part

We know that "Destruction/marine vegetation" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case destruction/marine vegetation = wrack.

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What does WRACK mean?

1. Vengeance; revenge; persecution; punishment; consequence; trouble.
2. (except in dialects) Ruin; destruction.
3. The remains; a wreck.

1. To execute vengeance; avenge.
2. To worry; tease; torment.

1. To place in or hang on a rack.
2. To torture (someone) on the rack.
3. To cause (someone) to suffer pain.
4. To stretch or strain; to harass, or oppress by extortion.
5. To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
6. To strike a male in the testicles.
7. To (manually) load (a round of ammunition) from the magazine or belt into firing position in an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
8. To move the slide bar on a shotgun in order to chamber the next round.
9. To wash (metals, ore, etc.) on a rack.
10. To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc.
11. (structural engineering) Tending to shear a structure (that is, force it to move in different directions at different points).

1. To stretch a person's joints.

1. To drive; move; go forward rapidly; stir
2. To fly, as vapour or broken clouds

1. To clarify, and thereby deter further fermentation of, beer, wine or cider by draining or siphoning it from the dregs.

1. (of a horse) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body; to pace.

1. Remnant from a shipwreck as washed ashore, or the right to claim such items.
2. Any marine vegetation cast up on shore, especially seaweed of the genus Fucus.
3. Weeds, vegetation or rubbish floating on a river or pond.
4. A high flying cloud; a rack.

1. To wreck, especially a ship (usually in passive).

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