wreck | 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. Goods, etc, which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. Origin: OE. Wrak, AS. Wraec 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, and cf. Wrack a marine plant Alternative forms: wrack. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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wreckfish | <zoology> A stone bass. Origin: So called because it often comes in with wreckage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
wreck | a ship that has been destroyed at sea |
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wreck | a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) |
wreck | an accident that destroys a ship at sea |
wreck | something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation |
wreck | smash or break forcefully |
wreck | the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked |
wreck | destroyed in an accident |
wreck | a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) |
wreck | someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks |
wreck | someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job |
wreck | brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks |
wreck | destruction achieved by wrecking something |
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