wreck
noun
any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
had wrecked
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past perfectof wreck.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Mrs Willis told the BBC the incident had "wrecked" her family.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
The indictment said Nadine Menendez needed that new car because she had wrecked hers in an “accident.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2023
Stoker reportedly asked around the shore about shipwrecks in Whitby, notably the Dmitry, a ship that had wrecked five years earlier.
From National Geographic ● Aug. 18, 2023
He followed with defeat at Franklin, Tennessee, and the late historian Shelby Foote wrote in “The Civil War: A Narrative” that “Hood had wrecked his army, top to bottom.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 14, 2020
He would have been fasting for months while waiting for the sea ice to re-form, but he was still twice as big as the bear that had wrecked them before.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
