Definition of wrecks Wrecks

/ɹɛˈks/ - [reks] -

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Noun Plural: wrecks
wreck - a ship that has been destroyed at sea
		ship a vessel that carries passengers or freight
wreck - 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"
		declination, decline a polite refusal of an invitation
wreck - an accident that destroys a ship at sea
		shipwreck
		accident anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"
wreck - a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
		crash
		accident anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity"

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wreck (Noun)
Something or someone that has been ruined.
wreck (Noun)
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
wreck (Noun)
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
wreck (Verb)
To cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
wreck (Verb)
To ruin or dilapidate.
wreck (Verb)
To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. Australia.

wreck (v. t. & n.)
See 2d & 3d Wreak.
wreck (v. t.)
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.
wreck (v. t.)
Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
wreck (v. t.)
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.
wreck (v. t.)
The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
wreck (v. t.)
Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
wreck (v. t.)
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.
wreck (v. t.)
To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
wreck (v. t.)
To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
wreck (v. i.)
To suffer wreck or ruin.
wreck (v. i.)
To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

wreck
The hulk of a wrecked or stranded ship; a ship dashed against rocks or land and broken or otherwise rendered useless.\n(Source: ISEP)
wreck
An old decrepit automobile.

wreck
the ruins of a ship which has been stranded or dashed to pieces on a shelf, rock, or lee-shore, by tempestuous weather.

wreck
The destruction of a ship by stress of weather, rocks, &c.; also the ruins of the ship after such accidents; also the goods and fragments which drive on shore after a ship is stranded. It is said that the term is derived from the sea-weed called wrack, denoting all that the sea washes on shore as it does this weed. A ship cast on shore is no wreck, in law, when any domestic animal has escaped with life in her. The custody of the cargo or goods belongs to the deputy of the vice-admiral, and they are restored to the proprietors without any fees or salvage, but what the labour of those who saved them may reasonably deserve.