'Wreck' definitions:
Definition of 'wreck'
From: WordNet
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"
noun
An accident that destroys a ship at sea [syn: shipwreck, wreck]
noun
A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane" [syn: crash, wreck]
noun
A ship that has been destroyed at sea
verb
Definition of 'Wreck'
From: GCIDE
- Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[ae]c 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. [1913 Webster]
- The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. --J. R. Green. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. [1913 Webster]
- To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wreck'
From: GCIDE
- Wreck \Wreck\, v. i.
- 1. To suffer wreck or ruin. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wreck'
From: GCIDE
- Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. [1913 Webster]
- Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wreck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accident,
- assault,
- atomize,
- attack,
- auto,
- autocar,
- automobile,
- bankrupt,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- beach,
- blight,
- bloodbath,
- blow,
- blue ruin,
- boat,
- botch,
- break to pieces,
- breakdown,
- breaking up,
- breakup,
- bring to ruin,
- brutalize,
- bugger,
- buggy,
- burn,
- bus,
- butcher,
- calamity,
- car,
- carcass,
- carnage,
- carry on,
- cast away,
- casualty,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- cave,
- cave-in,
- cleave,
- collapse,
- collision,
- condemn,
- confound,
- consume,
- consumption,
- contretemps,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- crate,
- cripple,
- damn,
- damnation,
- de-energize,
- deal destruction,
- debacle,
- debilitate,
- decimate,
- decimation,
- demolish,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- desolate,
- desolation,
- despoil,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- devastate,
- devastation,
- devour,
- dilapidate,
- disable,
- disassemble,
- disaster,
- disenable,
- disintegrate,
- disintegration,
- dismantle,
- disorganization,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- dissolve,
- do in,
- dog,
- drain,
- enfeeble,
- engorge,
- force,
- fragment,
- go on,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- grief,
- ground,
- gut,
- gut with fire,
- hammer,
- hamstring,
- havoc,
- heap,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- hors de combat,
- hulk,
- ill hap,
- impose,
- inactivate,
- incapacitate,
- incinerate,
- jalopy,
- kibosh,
- lame,
- lay in ruins,
- lay waste,
- loot,
- machine,
- maim,
- make mincemeat of,
- mar,
- maul,
- mere wreck,
- misadventure,
- mischance,
- misfortune,
- mishap,
- motor,
- motor vehicle,
- motorcar,
- motorized vehicle,
- mug,
- nasty blow,
- nervous wreck,
- perdition,
- pick to pieces,
- pile up,
- pileup,
- pillage,
- play havoc with,
- plunder,
- pull in pieces,
- pull to pieces,
- pulverize,
- put,
- queer,
- queer the works,
- rage,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rape,
- rattletrap,
- ravage,
- rave,
- raze,
- reduce to rubble,
- rend,
- riot,
- roar,
- ruin,
- ruinate,
- ruination,
- ruins,
- run aground,
- sabotage,
- sack,
- savage,
- shambles,
- shatter,
- shipwreck,
- shock,
- skeleton,
- slaughter,
- smash,
- smashup,
- sow chaos,
- spike,
- split,
- spoil,
- spoliation,
- staggering blow,
- storm,
- strand,
- subvert,
- sunder,
- swallow up,
- take apart,
- take the ground,
- tear,
- tear apart,
- tear around,
- tear to pieces,
- tear to shreds,
- tear to tatters,
- terrorize,
- throw into disorder,
- total,
- total loss,
- tragedy,
- trash,
- tub,
- unbuild,
- undermine,
- undo,
- undoing,
- unfit,
- unleash destruction,
- unleash the hurricane,
- unmake,
- upheave,
- vandalism,
- vandalize,
- vaporize,
- violate,
- visit,
- voiture,
- washout,
- waste,
- weaken,
- wheels,
- wing,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wrack up,
- wreak,
- wreak havoc