 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
wreck
noun
1: 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"
2: an accident that destroys a ship at sea [syn: {shipwreck}]
3: a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles);
"they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
[syn: {crash}]
4: a ship that has been destroyed at sea
verb: smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" [syn:
{bust up}, {wrack}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wreck \Wreck\, verb (used with an object) & n.
See 2d & 3d {Wreak}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wreck \Wreck\, noun [OE. wrak, AS. wr[ae]c exile, persecution,
misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak,
adjective, damaged, brittle, noun, a wreck, wraken to reject, throw
off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a
wreck, Dan. vrag. See {Wreak}, verb (used with an object), and cf. {Wrack} a
marine plant.] [Written also {wrack}.]
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.
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.
2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence;
ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
--Addison.
Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst
the wreck of its political life. --J. R. Green.
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.
4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
To the fair haven of my native home,
The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. --Cowper.
5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon
the land by the sea. --Bouvier.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wreck \Wreck\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Wrecked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wrecking}.]
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.
Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
--Shak.
2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to
destroy, as a railroad train.
3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to
balk of success, and bring disaster on.
Weak and envied, if they should conspire,
They wreck themselves. --Daniel.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Wreck \Wreck\, verb (used without an object)
1. To suffer wreck or ruin. --Milton.
2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or
in plundering.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
227 Moby Thesaurus words for "wreck":
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
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