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What (who) is Wreck - definition
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Wreck (disambiguation); The Wreck; Wrecks (disambiguation); The Wrecks (disambiguation)
Wreck
(·vt & ·noun) ·see 2d & 3d Wreak.
II. Wreck ·vi To suffer wreck or ruin.
III. Wreck ·vt The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
IV. Wreck ·vi To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
V. Wreck ·vt Goods, ·etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
VI. Wreck ·vt To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
VII. Wreck ·vt To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
VIII. Wreck ·vt Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
IX. Wreck ·vt 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.
X. Wreck ·vt 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.
XI. Wreck ·vt 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.
wreck
(wrecks, wrecking, wrecked)
1.
To wreck something means to completely destroy or ruin it.
A coalition could have defeated the government and wrecked the treaty...
His life has been wrecked by the tragedy.
...missed promotions, lost jobs, wrecked marriages.
VERB: V n, V n, V-ed
2.
If a ship is wrecked, it is damaged so much that it sinks or can no longer sail.
The ship was wrecked by an explosion.
...a wrecked cargo ship.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed, V-ed
3.
A wreck is something such as a ship, car, plane, or building which has been destroyed, usually in an accident.
...the wreck of a sailing ship...
The car was a total wreck...
We thought of buying the house as a wreck, doing it up, then selling it.
N-COUNT
4.
A wreck is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use crash
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He was killed in a car wreck.
N-COUNT: usu supp N
5.
If you say that someone is a wreck, you mean that they are very exhausted or unhealthy. (INFORMAL)
You look a wreck...
N-COUNT: usu sing
see also nervous wreck
wreck
n.
wrecked car
1) to tow a wreck
person who has suffered a breakdown
2) a nervous wreck
Examples of use of Wreck
1. "Look, before they were talking about a ‘train wreck‘ _ there was no train wreck.
2. Finally, Gladstone didn‘t wreck the Liberal party.
3. Smouldering wreck Firefighters were shown extinguishing fires in parts of the smouldering wreck and clambering over other areas of the fuselage, carrying out corpses covered in blankets.
4. It was shocking and I‘ve been a wreck ever since.
5. This writer witnessed that the car was a total wreck.