Meaning

Something or someone that has been ruined..

Definitions by Sense

1. Something or someone that has been ruined.
2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
3. An event in which something is damaged through collision.
4. (law, uncountable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
5. (ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
6. (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
7. (transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
8. (transitive, obsolete) To plunder goods from wrecked ships.

Example Sentences

He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

To the fair haven of my native home, / The vvreck of vvhat I was, fatigued I come, […]

In 2006, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras was killed in a car wreck in Lake Forest.

Hard and obſtinate, / As is a rocke amidſt the raging floods: / gaynſt vvhich a ſhip of ſuccour deſolate, / doth ſuffer vvreck both of her ſelfe and goods.

the wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds

Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.

2. ... Wreck includes the cargo, stores and tackle of a vessel and all parts of a vessel separated from the vessel, and the property of persons who belong to, are on board or have quitted a vessel that is wrecked, stranded or in distress at any place in Canada.

[I]n 1952 more than 7,000 were involved in such a "wreck" in Britain and Ireland.

Word Forms

• wrecks
• wrecking
• wrecked

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