Definitions for wreckrɛk

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wreck(noun)

    something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation


  2. shipwreck, wreck(noun)

    an accident that destroys a ship at sea

  3. crash, wreck(noun)

    a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

    "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

  4. wreck(verb)

    a ship that has been destroyed at sea

  5. bust up, wreck, wrack(verb)

    smash or break forcefully

    "The kid busted up the car"


  1. wreck(Noun)

    Something or someone that has been ruined.

  2. wreck(Noun)

    The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

  3. wreck(Noun)

    An event in which something is damaged through collision.

  4. wreck(Verb)


    (Usage: A collision is often implied as the cause of the damage - "He wrecked the car")

  5. wreck(Verb)

    To ruin or dilapidate.

  6. wreck(Verb)


Webster Dictionary

  1. Wreck

    see 2d & 3d Wreak

  2. Wreck(verb)

    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

  3. Wreck(verb)

    destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train

  4. Wreck(verb)

    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

  5. Wreck(verb)

    the remain of anything ruined or fatally injured

  6. Wreck(verb)

    goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea

  7. Wreck(verb)


  8. Wreck(verb)


  9. Wreck(verb)


  10. Wreck(verb)

    to suffer wreck or ruin

  11. Wreck(verb)

    to work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering

  12. Origin: [OE. wrak, AS. wrc 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.]


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Sample Sentences & Example Usage

  1. Louis Bravo:

    But if you ask my wife, I was a train wreck for eight months.

  2. Dean Anderson:

    It's very difficult to access a wreck based on photo and film footage.

  3. Riek Machar:

    There is danger that is looming that could wreck this peace agreement now.

  4. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.:


  5. Donald Trump:

    He had his moment and he blew it, he looks like a nervous wreck.... He's going down.

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