Wreck

Definition: Wreck

Wreck

Noun

1. 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".

2. An accident that destroys a ship at sea.

3. A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane".

4. A ship that has been destroyed at sea.

Verb

1. Smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "wreck" was first used: 1228. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Wreck

Destruction

Verb: be destroyed; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all with; totter to its fall.

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.

Deterioration

Wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra; jade, plug, rackabones, skate; tackey, tacky.

Disorder

Phrase: the cart before the horse; gr/hysteron proteron/gr chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds ".

Failure

Fall, downfall, ruin, perdition; wreck; (destruction); deathblow; bankruptcy; (nonpayment).

Remainder

Noun: remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts; residuum; dregs; (dirt); refuse; (useless); stubble, result, educt; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump; alluvium.

Crosswords: Wreck

You know you wreck everything you touch, Why don't you try and make something for a change (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders)

Why do you need to wreck this company (Wall Street; writing credit: Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Starring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox, Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko, and Martin Sheen as Carl Fox.)

Did you wreck the car (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

We'll find the wreck without your help (The Land Unknown; writing credit: Charles Palmer; William N. Robson)

Jody died in a car wreck. (Phantasm; writing credit: Don Coscarelli)

I'm a clockwork wreck (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC)

I feel a wreck without my, little China Girl (China Girl; performing artist: David Bowie)

Showin' much flex when it's time to wreck a mic (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

People know this world is a wreck (Peaceful World; performing artist: John Mellencamp; writing credit: John Mellencamp)

All you did was wreck my bed (MAGGIE MAY; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

A cruel word may wreck a life. (references; author: unknown)

What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?  A nervous wreck. (references; author: unknown)

The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)

So You Think You're a Nervous Wreck (1946)

The Wreck of the Hesperus (1944)

Out of the Wreck (1917)

The Wreck (1913)

THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD  (performing artist: Gordon Lightfoot )

"The Wreck of The "John B" (performing artist: Jimmie Rodgers)

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Books

• The Wreck of Heaven: Book Two of the World Gates (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bull Bustin/Best Rides & Wreck (reference)

• The Wreck of the Mary Deare (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Wreck Collection (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Disney/Pixar's Monsters, Inc. Wreck Room Arcade: Bowling for Screams (Jewel Case) (reference)

• WALT DISNEY Monsters, Inc. Wreck Room: Bowling For Screams (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Steel truck wreck at San Sabo Triangulation party of Carl Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

They say that fish congregate around wrecks - a fisherman trying his luck next to a floating wreck. Credit: America's Coastlines.

The wreck of the TENNESSEE on March 6th, 1853. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 435. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Lieutenant Bortniak at the controls. Already growing a nice set of whiskers. Exploring the wreck of a Hercules C-130 at the end of the runway. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The reefs off Mona Island are the resting grounds for many ships. The wreck in the image is the M/V El Alborada, grounded offshore of Pajaros on Mona Island in in 1980. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

PHANTOM 300 inspects wreck. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

J. Peress' 1-atm dive suit, Tritonia, explored the Lusitania wreck in 1935. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Sketch of the ship's wreck, entitled "Cairo Submerged", probably depicting the scene immediately after she was sunk by a Confederate mine in the Yazoo River, Mississippi, on 12 December 1862. Note men sitting on projecting timbers and swimming in the water nearby. Credit: NAVY.

"Pencil sketch from Photograph of The wreck of the German, 'Adler', thrown on the reef on her beam ends" Artwork by Rear Admiral Lewis A. Kimberly, contained in his personal journal of the Apia Hurricane. It shows German gunboat Adler as she lay on the western side of Apia Harbor, following the storm. Credit: NAVY.

It wasn't until the dug-out blew in from the sea, and he had learned to navigate it, that the child visited the wreck. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Leave this wreck and ruin here where it hath happened

As soon as the revolution strikes the shore, the able carve up the wreck.

It was as impressive a wreck as one could imagine on the seashore, and had as good a moral

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Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "wreck": car wreck ♦ card wreck ♦ go to wreck ♦ it is a wreck ♦ nervous wreck ♦ the wreck of his hopes ♦ the wreck of the titanic ♦ wreck of a hat. Additional references.

Beginning with "wreck": Wreck-master, wreck-salvaging, wreck-site, wreck-strewn.

Ending with "wreck": a-wreck, see-wreck, ship-wreck.

Afrikaans

afwys (abort, quash, refuse, reject). (various references)

Albanian

thyej (bend, break, break to pieces, cash, change, crack up, demolish, fold, fracture, hurt, mammock, maul, mill, refract, rupture, shatter, shiver, sliver, smash, snap, Spall, split, stamp, transgress, worst), shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, defeat, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, zap), shkatërrim (breakdown, breakup, collapse, decay, decimation, demolition, depredation, desolation, destruction, devastation, dissolution, downfall, havoc, mess, ravage, ruin, wrack, wrecking), sende të nxjerra në breg, rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, defeat, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill), rrënoja (rubble, ruin, wrack), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, zap), njeri i mbaruar (goner), ngordhësirë (scrag, starveling, walking skeleton), mbytje (choke, garrotte, glut, stifling, strangulation, submergence, submersion, suffocation, thuggee, thuggery, wrecking), mbytet (founder, sink), mbyt (asphyxiate, assail, blanket, choke, deluge, drown, jugulate, smother, stifle, strangle, suffocate, throttle), anije e mbytur. (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرق (deluge, dip, drown, drowning, eject, founder, go under, grub, relapse, shipwright, sink, sinking, submergence, swamp), ‏حطم (break, break up, crack, dash, disintegrate, extinguish, shatter, shipwreck, shiver, sink, smash, undo, wrack, wreak), ‏حطام سفينة (flotsam, shipwreck, wreckage), ‏حاول إنقاذ السفينة الغارقة, ‏تدمير (annihilation, demolition, destruction, devastation, mayhem, overthrow, ruin, subversion), ‏طرح حطام السفينة إلى الشائ, ‏خراب (bane, decay, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, havoc, perdition, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, undoing, wrack, wreckage), ‏خرب (blight, desolate, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, dilapidated, fallen, go to pot, gum, harm, harry, havoc, overthrow, play havoc with, pull down, ravage, ruin, ruined, ruinous, sabotage, spoil, waste), ‏أحدث (breed, brew, bring, bring forth, create, crop, effect, enact, engender, generate, give rise to, hatch, induce, inspire, make, mother, proceed, progress, provoke, send forth, supervene), ‏شخص مريض, ‏دمار (desolation, destruction, devastation, havoc, rack, ruin, ruination, subversion, wrack), ‏دمر (annihilate, blast, break down, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, flatten, immolate, overthrow, prey, pull down, pulverize, ravage, ruin, smash, subvert, unbuild, wrack). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съборетина, рухвам (collapse, crumble, fall, go to pieces, go to ruin, topple, tumble down), руина, разрушение (decay, desolation, destruction, disruption, pulverization, ravage), развалина (old tub, ruin), разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, disrupt, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up), кораб претърпял корабокрушение, останки от разбит кораб, опустошение (depredation, desolation, devastation, havoc, ravage, ravin), претърпявам корабокрушение (cast away, shipwreck), потопявам (immerse, inundate, send down, sink, sop, submerge, submerse, swamp). (various references)

Chinese 

破壞 (break, destroy), 摧毀 (destroy), 击毁 (Wrecked, Wrecking). (various references)

Czech

ztroskotat (be wrecked, bite, cast away, cave in, collapse, come to grief, fail, fall through, founder, go by the board, ground, miscarry, shipwreck), ztroskotání (collapse), zpùsobit ztroskotání, znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, infringe, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out), zřícenina (ruin), vrak (carcass, hulk, shipwreck, wreckage), troska (ruin), rozbít (break, break up, bust, crack, dash, destroy, pitch, shatter, smash, sunder), havárie (car crush). (various references)

Danish

vrag (cull, reject, scrap, waster). (various references)

Dutch

wrak (decayed, decrepit, dilapidated, lapsed, rickety), verijdelen (quash), verýdelen (abort, quash), laten mislukken (abort, quash), doen mislukken (abort, quash), afwijzen (quash, refuse, reject), afwýzen (abort, quash, refuse, reject). (various references)

Esperanto

aŭtovrako (car wreck). (various references)

Farsi 

کشتی شکستگی (Shipwreck, Wrack), لاشه کشتی وهواپیماوغیره , خسارت وارداوردن , خرابی (Decay, Demolition, Destruction, Godsend, Havoc, Ruin, Ruination, Wrack, Wreckage), خراب کردن (Amortize, Botch, Corrupt, Demolish, Destroy, Deteriorate, Devastate, Dilapidate, Disfigure, Impair, Muck, Muddle, Ruin, Ruinate, Unbuild, Undo, Unmake, Vitiate, Wrack), خردومتلاشی شدن . (various references)

Finnish

hylky (refuse, waste). (various references)

French

naufrage (wrecking), épave (wreckage). (various references)

German

Wrack (crock, hulk, ruin, shell, wreckage), zerstören (blast, blight, demolish, destroy, distroy, extinguish, gut, kill, quash, raze, ruin, sink, spoil, to demolish, to destroy, to destruct, to kill, vandalize), Schiffbruch (shipwreck). (various references)

Greek 

ναυάγιο (shipwreck, wrack). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבר (break, crush, demolish, shatter, smash), להרוס (bane, blight, demolish, destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, shatter, tear down), חורבן (destruction, devastation, havoc, ravage, smash), אניה טרופה, גרוטא (junk, lumber, scrap, scrap iron, write off). (various references)

Hungarian

roncs (debris, wrack, wreckage), hajótörés (shipwreck). (various references)

Indonesian

merusakkan (deface, deleterious, desolate, destroy, foozie, queer), merusak (blight, botch, corrode, deflower, deprave, detrimental, dilapidate, impair), menggagalkan (baffle, cause to fail, foil), kecelakaan (accident, bad luck, calamity, mishap). (various references)

Italian

relitto (derelict, outcast, shipwreck, wreckage), naufragio (downfall, failure, ruin, setting, shipwreck, sinking). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

形骸 (framework, mere skeleton, ruin). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

けいがい (framework, mere skeleton, pleasure of meeting, ruin). (various references)

Korean 

난파 (Wrecking). (various references)

Manx

mooirchoorey (driftwood), mooirchooraghey, lhongvrisht (shipwrecked), cur lhong fo. (various references)

Pig Latin

eckwray.(various references)

Portuguese

naufrágio (shipwreck, wrack, wreckage). (various references)

Romanian

naufragia (be cast away, founder), avarie (average, break down, casualty, damage, failure, fault, injury), cãzãturã (fall, rotter, tumble), dãrâma (annihilate, batter, blight, break down, crack, crumble, crush, demolish, destroy, frustrate, pull down, raze, ruin, shatter, throw down), dãrâmãturi (carcas, remnant, rubbish, ruin, wreckage), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake), epavã (debris, shipwreck), epavã a unui vas naufragiat, accident (accidence, accident, accidental, break down, case, catastrophe, contingency, disaster, event, fortuity, happening, misadventure, misfortune, occasionality, slip), nãruire (ruin), suferi o avarie, naufragiu (shipwreck, ship-wreck), provoca deraierea unui tren, provoca naufragiu al unui vas, rãmãşiţe scoase pe ţãrm de valuri, resturi (draff, garbage, Grout, jetsam, leavings, litter, odd-come-shorts, odds and ends, offal, parings, picking, refuse, remain, remains, remnants, rubbish, scrap, scraps, tailings), ruinã (bankruptcy, break up, burst up, decay, perdition, ruin, ruination, shipwreck), se prãbuşi (come down with a run, crash, crumble, curl up, fall, fall drop through, fall in, fall to the ground, founder, go to pieces, ruin, subside), strica (bastardize, batter, bedevil, blast, blight, break, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crack, cripple, damage, debauch, decompose, deface, deflower, demolish, deprave, derange, destroy, disarrange, disconcert, disfigure, disorganize, disturb, flaw, frustrate, hackle, harm, hurt, impair, injure, Mar, muck, muddle, pervert, pip, quash, rot, sophisticate, spoil, taint, vitiate), hârbui (demolish, destroy). (various references)

Russian 

разрушать (attack, break, broke, cast down, defeated, demolish, destroy, disestablish, erode, make havoc of, play havoc, play havoc among, play havoc with, play hell, play the devil, play the mischief, shatter, subvert, unbuild, wrack, wracked), развалина, терпеть крушение/ повреждение, крушение (burst up, collapse, crash, derailment, smashups, wreckage), крах (crash, down, ruin), вызвать крушение (derail), остов разбитого судна, обломки (detritus, shivers), авария (breakdown, casualty, crash, damage, emergency, prang), аварийный (abnormal, emergency), потерпеть крушение. (various references)

Scottish

spreisneach (the remains of a wreck). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uništiti (annihilate, come to grief, dash, destroy, do away with, do for, exterminate, lay low, liquidate, obliterate, polish off, take out, unmake, waste, weed out, wipe out), slupati (demolish, smash), slom (break, breakdown, collapse, debacle, fracture, labefaction, ruin), ruina (ruin), ruševina (ruin), propast (bane, calamity, downfall, failure, perdition, precipice, ruin, ruination, smash, wrack), olupina (wrackage), krntija (heap, rattletrap, shandrydan, tin lizzie). (various references)

Spanish

naufragio (shipwreck), desbaratar (debunk, mock, scuttle, smash, thwart). (various references)

Swedish

vrak (cull, reject), skeppsbrott (shipwreck, wreckage). (various references)

Turkish

kaza yapmak (have an accident, pile up, shipwreck), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off), enkaz (carcase, carcass, debris, rubbish, salvage, wrack, wreckage), gemi enkazı (derelict, flotage, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, Lagan, shipwreck, wrack, wreckage), haşat etmek (bang up, bash in, bash up, pile up, prang, pulverize, quash, slosh), harabe (derelict, desolation, ruin, wrack, wrecks), harap olma (dilapidation, subversion), hasara uğratmak (damage, flaw), baltalamak (hamstring, sabotage, sap, scupper, undermine), kaza (accident, borough, casualty, crack up, crash, district, fatality, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, smash, smash up, township), yıkıntı (debris, ruin, shambles, wrack, wreckage, wrecks), kaza yaptırmak, mahvetmek (bang up, bankrupt, barbarize, be ruin of smb., beat smb. hollow, bring to ruin, bugger, bugger up, canker, cook, corrupt, cut up, damn, destroy, devastate, dish, do for, exterminate, finish, kill, knock into a cocked hat, lay in ruins, lay low, make havoc of, play havoc with, pulverize, queer, ruin, sink, skunk, slaughter, smash, smash up, split, take smb. to the cleaners, undo, wallop, work havoc), mahvolma (bankruptcy, being destroyed, being ruined, perdition, shipwreck), rezil etmek (attaint, ball up, bitch, bitch up, bring disgrace on smb., decry, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, foul up, gibbet, guy, let down, pillory, put smb. to shame, ruin, stultify), suya düşürmek (blight), suya düşme (collapse, flop, miscarriage, petering), yıkılma (collapse, crack up, decay, downfall, fall, shipwreck, subversion), karaya oturtmak (ground, pile up, shipwreck, strand). (various references)

Ukrainian

уламки (debris, detritus, wreckage), спричинити аварію, руїна, руйнувати (attack, baffle, blight, cast down, confound, demolish, destroy, devour, dilapidate, disappoint, explode, havoc, ruin, shake down, wrack), розміняти, катастрофа (accident, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, crash, debacle, smash), загинути (go to hell, go west, succumb), загибель (bad, bane, blasting, catastrophe, collapse, death, destruction, doom, ending, fate, overthrow, perdition, ruin, undoing, wreckage), аварія (accident, average, break down, casualty, derailment, emergency, smash up), пропасти (go to the bad), демонтувати (demount). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tàu chìm vật trôi giạt người suy nhược, sự tàn phá (desolation, devastation, havoc, wasting), sự sụp đổ vật đổ nát, sự phá hoại (destruction, sabotage), sự phá hỏng, người tàn phế (invalid). (various references)

adflicta, pessum dare. (various references)

wrak. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wreck": wreckage, wreckages, wrecked, wrecker, wreckers, wreckful, wrecking, wreckings, wrecks. (additional references)

Words ending with "wreck": shipwreck. (additional references)

Words containing "wreck": shipwrecked, shipwrecking, shipwrecks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wreck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dreck, drecky, nwrac, recc, reck, warec, Warncke, weck, weeck, werc, Wieck, wrac, wreack, wrek, wrenk, wrex, wric, wrix, wroc. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: crew, reck.

-2 letters: rec.

-3 letters: er, re, we.

+1 letter: wicker, wrecks.

+2 letters: wackier, whacker, whicker, wickers, wracked, wrecked, wrecker, wricked, wryneck.

+3 letters: capework, casework, checkrow, cookware, coworker, crewneck, lacework, neckwear, rockweed, thwacker, whackers, whackier, whickers, wickeder, wreckage, wreckers, wreckful, wrecking, wrynecks.

+4 letters: awestruck, backwater, capeworks, caseworks, checkrows, cookwares, corkscrew, coworkers, crewnecks, graywacke, jackscrew, laceworks, piecework, rockweeds, screwlike, shipwreck, thwackers, waterbuck, whickered, wisecrack, workbench, workforce, workpiece, workplace, wreckages, wreckings.