wreck
any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
the ruin or destruction of a vessel in the course of navigation; shipwreck.
a vessel in a state of ruin from disaster at sea, on rocks, etc.
the ruin or destruction of anything: the wreck of one's hopes.
a person of ruined health; someone in bad shape physically or mentally: The strain of his work left him a wreck.
to cause the wreck of (a vessel); shipwreck.
to involve in a wreck.
to cause the ruin or destruction of: to wreck a car.
to tear down; demolish: to wreck a building.
to ruin or impair severely: Fast living wrecked their health.
Origin of wreck
1synonym study For wreck
Other words for wreck
Other words from wreck
- un·wrecked, adjective
Words that may be confused with wreck
- wreak, wreck
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How to use wreck in a sentence
That law governs all sorts of phenomena, including rocket engines, collisions between electrons, and car wrecks.
Dear NASA: Fuel-Free Rocket Thruster Is Literally Too Good to Be True | Matthew R. Francis | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere has always been something intriguing about train wrecks.
Time of Death’s Nicole ‘Little’ Lencioni: Dying Is a Party of One | Nicole Lencioni | November 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe part of us that slows down at car wrecks to perhaps see some blood.
The Amanda Bynes Meltdown: What Former Child Stars Are Saying | Kevin Fallon | June 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTA couple of more car wrecks and this thing could effectively be over by the end of January.
Will New Hampshire’s Primary Matter in the 2012 GOP Nomination Battle? | Howard Kurtz | January 10, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Sex Addiction EpidemicChris Lee, Newsweek It wrecks marriages, destroys careers, and saps self-worth.
In a few minutes it was broken, and we saw its wrecks swept along the side of the hill.
Many wrecks have been found by these bottom-prowling scouts and valuable material recovered.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousThe Goodwin light-vessel, being nearest to the wrecks, fired a signal-gun and sent up a rocket.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneWithout her powerful engines to tow it to windward of the wrecks the lifeboat would be much, very much, less useful than it is.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneCease, then, to love me with this insensate fever which wrecks the nights of your people, and love me as I love you.
Balsamo, The Magician | Alexander Dumas
British Dictionary definitions for wreck
/ (rɛk) /
to involve in or suffer disaster or destruction
(tr) to cause the wreck of (a ship)
the accidental destruction of a ship at sea
the ship so destroyed
maritime law goods cast ashore from a wrecked vessel
a person or thing that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
the remains of something that has been destroyed
old-fashioned the act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked; ruin or destruction
Origin of wreck
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