wreck

[wreck]

A wreck is something that's been destroyed. Your hair might be a wreck after a bad day at the barber. Your car might be a wreck after you hit a telephone pole.

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See 2d & 3d Wreak.

Noun
a ship that has been destroyed at sea

Noun
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

Noun
an accident that destroys a ship at sea

Noun
something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"

Verb
smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"

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v. t. & n.
See 2d & 3d Wreak.

v. t.
The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.

v. t.
Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.

v. t.
The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.

v. t.
The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.

v. t.
Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.

v. t.
To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.

v. t.
To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.

v. t.
To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

v. i.
To suffer wreck or ruin.

v. i.
To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.


Wreck

Wreck , v. t. & n. See 2d & 3d Wreak.

Wreck

Wreck, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr'91c 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. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.] [Written also wrack.] 1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.
2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck. 4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. Bouvier.

Wreck

Wreck , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking.] 1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. 3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves.

Wreck

Wreck, v. i. 1. To suffer wreck or ruin. Milton. 2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

See 2d & 3d Wreak.

The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.

To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.

To suffer wreck or ruin.

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Usage Examples

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

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