Wreck
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English
Noun
Wreck (plural Wrecks)- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
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Derived terms
Verb
Wreck (third-person singular simple present Wrecks, present participle Wrecking, simple past and past participle Wrecked)
- To cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- (Usage: A collision is often implied as the cause of the damage - "He wrecked the car")
- To ruin or dilapidate.
- To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. (Australia)
Antonyms
- restore (2)
Derived terms
Adjectives for Wreck
isolated; passive; sunken; pensile; irredeemable; silent; human; stunted; profitable; dilapidated; emotional; colossal; leafless; pulverized; shattered; crimson; moral; mangled; horrid; centennial; complicated; dreaded; ghastly; pitiable.
Verbs for Wreck
avert—; avoid—; escape—; explore— glean from—; investigate—; perish in— probe—; rummage through—; salvage— survive—; —annihilates; —blights; —de¬faces; —demolishes; —devastates; —disheartens; —encumbers; —impairs; —impedes; —mars; —obstructs; —scars; — scathes; —strews.
Adverbs for Wreck
deliberately; wantonly; revengefully; vindictively; desperately; hideously; disastrously,' spiritually; destructively; insanely; treacherously.
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
Etymology
Middle English wrek from Anglo-Norman wrec, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek), from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European.[1] Distantly related to wreak.[1]
