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- DictionaryWreck/rek/
noun
- 1. the destruction of a ship at sea; a shipwreck: "the survivors of the wreck"
- 2. something, especially a vehicle or building, that has been badly damaged or destroyed: "the plane was reduced to a smouldering wreck"
verb
- 1. destroy or severely damage (a structure, vehicle, or similar): "the blast wrecked 100 houses"
- 2. cause the destruction of (a ship) by sinking or breaking up: "he was drowned when his ship was wrecked"
1. any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin. 2. wreckage, goods, etc., remaining above water after a shipwreck, esp. when cast ashore. 3. the ruin or destruction of a vessel in the course of navigation; shipwreck. 4. a vessel in a state of ruin from disaster at sea, on rocks, etc. 5.
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wreck meaning, definition, what is wreck: to completely spoil something so that it...: Learn more.
WRECK meaning: 1. to destroy something completely: 2. a car, ship, or aircraft that has been very badly damaged…. Learn more.
Definition of wreck noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, whence also Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old High German rehhan, Old Saxon wrekan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan).
enPR: rĕk, IPA(key): /ˈɹɛk/(obsolete, dialectal) enPR: răk, IPA(key): /ˈɹæk/wreck (plural wrecks) 1. Something or someone that has been ruined. 1.1. He was an emotional wreckafter the death of his wife. 1.2. Synonym: basket case, mess 2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. 2.1. 1782, William Cowper, “Retirement”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson,[…], →OCLC, page 277: 2.1.1. To the fa...
wreck (third-person singular simple present wrecks, present participle wrecking, simple past and past participle wrecked) 1. (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. 1.1. He wreckedthe car in a collision. 1.2. That adulterous hussy wreckedmy marriage! 1.1. 1610–1611 ...
“wreck”, in Collins English Dictionary.“wreck”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.“wreck”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.“wreck”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.A wreck is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
a car, plane, etc. that has been very badly damaged in an accident. Two passengers are still trapped in the wreck. She was pulled from the burning wreck by firefighters.
