'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
Smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" [syn: bust up, wreck, wrack]

Definition of 'Wreck'

From: GCIDE
  • Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. & n. See 2d & 3d Wreak. [1913 Webster]

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