English dictionary

wreck

/r/E/k/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation

noun.state

Examples
The house was a wreck when they bought it.

Thanks to that quack I am a human wreck.

Source: WordNet 3.0
an accident that destroys a ship at sea

noun.event

Synonyms shipwreck

Source: WordNet 3.0
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

noun.event

Synonyms crash

Source: WordNet 3.0
a ship that has been destroyed at sea

noun.artifact

Source: WordNet 3.0
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.

noun

Source: webster1913

smash or break forcefully

verb.contact

Synonyms bust up wrack

Source: WordNet 3.0
See 2d & 3d <u>Wreak</u>.

verb

Source: webster1913
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.

verb

Source: webster1913
To suffer wreck or ruin.

verb

Source: webster1913