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- DictionaryWreck·age/ˈrekij/
noun
- 1. the remains of something that has been badly damaged or destroyed: "firemen had to cut him free from the wreckage of the car"
a situation in which something has been badly damaged or destroyed: The bank's directors should not be allowed to walk away from the financial wreckage they created. the parts of a vehicle, building, etc. that remain after it has been badly damaged: Experts were sent to inspect the plane's wreckage.
The meaning of WRECKAGE is the act of wrecking : the state of being wrecked. How to use wreckage in a sentence.
a situation in which something has been badly damaged or destroyed: The bank's directors should not be allowed to walk away from the financial wreckage they created. the parts of a vehicle, building, etc. that remain after it has been badly damaged: Experts were sent to inspect the plane's wreckage.
noun. act of wrecking; wrecking; state of being wrecked. remains or fragments of something that has been wrecked: They searched the wreckage for survivors. wreckage. / ˈrɛkɪdʒ / noun. same as wreck. the act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked; ruin or destruction.
What's left behind after a destructive accident or disaster is called wreckage. The day after tornadoes sweep through a town, its inhabitants might search the wreckage of their houses for mementoes and valuables.
The debris or remains of something wrecked: the wreckage of a plane crash; flood wreckage.
wreckage. When something such as a plane, car, or building has been destroyed, you can refer to what remains as wreckage or the wreckage. If something such as a plan has failed or been spoilt completely, you can refer to what remains as the wreckageof it.
Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed. Wiktionary. Synonyms: havoc. flotsam. ruins. remains. shambles. hulk. wreck. remnants. flotsam-and-jetsam. debris. ruin. wrack. rubble. undoing. ruination. Other Word Forms of Wreckage. Noun. Singular: wreckage.
wreckage. noun. /ˈrekɪdʒ/. /ˈrekɪdʒ/. [uncountable] the parts of a vehicle, building, etc. that remain after it has been badly damaged or destroyed. A few survivors were pulled from the wreckage. Pieces of wreckage were found ten miles away from the scene of the explosion.
the parts that remain of a car, ship, or aircraft that has been destroyed: Two survivors were pulled from the wreckage. (Definition of wreckage from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
