(·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.