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Answer for the clue "Ruin's companion ", 5 letters:
wrack

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Word definitions for wrack in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "wrecked ship, shipwreck," probably from Middle Dutch wrak "wreck," from Proto-Germanic *wrakaz- , from root *wreg- "to push, shove drive" (see wreak ). The root sense perhaps is "that which is cast ashore." Sense perhaps influenced by Old English ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[ae]c exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. ...

Usage examples of wrack.

Above the fog banks a wrack of cloud had gathered, the aerophane was coated with a glittering mist.

Then the memory passed and Alman, weak from privations and older than his years, hunched in on himself in a series of wracking coughs.

Wracked by jealousy, Cornelia had become the pawn of Asterion, the ancient Minotaur and archenemy of the Game, and had murdered Genvissa just as she and Brutus were about to complete the Game.

Father Cesare sat his hefty body upon his chair once more, his eyes wincing in pain as the bones wracked painfully together.

Nodding donkeys walked up the cliff stair carrying panniers filled with kelp and dulse, wrack, oar weed, and laver.

The fasciculations rapidly spread to other muscles until her body became wracked by clonic jerks.

He wrapped his arms around Iral and held on, letting the sobs wrack his body, letting the fear and pain leak away with his tears.

It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.

Thy silver passages of sacred lands, With news of Sepulchre and Dolorous Hill, Canst thou be he that, yester-sunset warm, Purple with Paynim rage and wrack desire, Dashed ravening out of a dusty lair of Storm, Harried the west, and set the world on fire?

Wracker sat on the edge of the desk and stared at the physicist for what seemed to Pissant to be an awfully long time.

She saw the bottom of the pool rise up, while her diaphragm wracked for air and her arms flapped against the grip.

A shudder of release wracked my pain-stricken body as I uttered the fearful words.

His arms came around my neck, chokingly tight, and I held him while he sobbed, raw and gasping, his entire body wracked with the force of it.

His face was wracked in a grimace of pain, and his arm stretched taut in its socket.

On the shore, Hyacinthe was doubled and panting, each breath wracked with pain.