Wreckage

Definition: Wreckage

Wreckage

Noun

1. The remaining parts of something that has been wrecked; "they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors".

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

Date "wreckage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references)

Crosswords: Wreckage

But I want a crater! I want wreckage, twisted metal (The Pink Panther Strikes Again; writing credit: Blake Edwards; Frank Waldman)

I ah I managed to ferret this out of the wreckage. Now, it may not interest you, but (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

So take me from the wreckage (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

Wreckage (1925)

Human Wreckage (1923)

Panorama of Wreckage of Water Front (1900)

Showing Wreckage Birdseye View of Galveston (1900)

Scenes of the Wreckage from the Water Front (1900)

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

Books

• Class: The Wreckage of an American Family (reference)

• Evidence, Wreckage, Harbinger: Poems by John Palen (reference)

• The Wreckage Reconsidered (reference)

• Wreckage (reference)

• Wreckage of Play (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Challenger Wreckage Entombment. Credit: NASA.

Francis X. Popper on wreckage of Japanese gun at Manila Regimental navigator for Army amphibious engineers. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Crewmen of USS Ellet (DD-398) look at the floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942. Credit: NAVY.

Largely intact floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942. Photographed from USS Ellet (DD-398). Credit: NAVY.

Damage resulting from the 17 July 1944 ammunition explosion. This view looks north, showing the wreckage of Building A-7 (Joiner Shop) in the center and ship pier beyond. Note bulldozer and damaged automobiles in the foreground, railway crane at left, and scattered pilings. Photograph was taken by the Mare Island Navy Yard. Credit: NAVY.

Unidentified sailor being removed from wreckage of a Braniff airliner, which crashed while landing at Midway Airport, Chicago. Credit: Library of Congress.

First Army photos of the bombing of the Hickam Field, Hawaii, Dec. 7, 1941. Wreckage of Japanese plane shot down near CCC camp in Wahiawa, T.H. Credit: Library of Congress.

8th Army in Tripoli. Wreckage of Italian hangars and airplanes at Castel Benito Airfield outside Tripoli. The airfield was captured by the British in the Tripoli campaign. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wreckage of burned cotton gin and compress at Big Spring, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Poster with photos showing Ho Chi Minh inspecting gun emplacement, coastal defense installation, soldiers in Hanoi reading newspaper describing North Vietnamese destruction of enemy aircraft, Vietnamese capturing American pilot, and site of wreckage of Am. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Human Rights

Angola

On August 10, approximately 250 persons, mostly civilians, were killed after a UNITA landmine near Zenza do Itumbe, Kwanza Norte province, exploded under a passenger train; there were reports that UNITA forces shot passengers who were fleeing the wreckage of the train. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

More than four years after the Asian financial crisis, Indonesia continues to struggle with the wreckage of its 1998 economic collapse. (references)

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

Albanian

mbeturina anijeje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏منبوذ من المجتمع, ‏حطام سفينة (flotsam, shipwreck, wreck), ‏حطام (debris, ruins, shipwreck, wrack), ‏عطب (crash, slip up), ‏خراب (bane, decay, demolition, desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, havoc, perdition, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, undoing, wrack, wreck), ‏أطلال (debris). (various references)

Bulgarian 

руини (ruins), останки от корабокрушение (flotage), останки от катастрофа, останки от бедствия, останки от пожар. (various references)

Chinese 

残骸, 殘骸 (remains). (various references)

Czech

vrak (carcass, hulk, shipwreck, wreck), trosky (debris). (various references)

Farsi 

لاشه هواپیمایاماشین وغیره , خرابی (Decay, Demolition, Destruction, Godsend, Havoc, Ruin, Ruination, Wrack, Wreck), اتلاف (Destruction, Wastage, Waste). (various references)

Finnish

hylkytavara (defective goods, flotsam, rejects, stranded goods). (various references)

French

marginalisé, déraillement (wrecking), décombres (wreck), débris, anéantissement (wrecking), épave du navire (wreck), épave (wreck). (various references)

German

Wrackgut, Wrack (crock, hulk, ruin, shell, wreck), Trümmer (carcass, debris, fragmental, remnants, rubble, ruin, ruins, whopper, wreck). (various references)

Greek 

καταστροφή (catastrophe, destruction, devastation, disaster, mayhem, rack, ravage, ruin, undoing), συντρίμια (debris), σαραβάλιασμα (dilapidation), λείψανα καταστροφήσ, λείψανα ναυάγιου. (various references)

Hebrew 

שברי א� י�" (flotsam), שרי�"י �"תרסקות, �"רס (bane, destroy, destruction, havoc, ravage, ruin, wrack). (various references)

Hungarian

roncs (debris, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Indonesian

rongsokan (worn-out articles). (various references)

Italian

rottami (debris), relitto (derelict, outcast, shipwreck, wreck), macerie (detrital, old, old materials, rubbish, rubble, ruin). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

残骸 (ruins). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざ�"がい (ruins). (various references)

Korean 

�"해. (various references)

Manx

skellig (small sea rock, wreckage under water), mooirchooraghyn (driftwood, jetsam, wreckage on shore). (various references)

Pig Latin

eckagewray.(various references)

Portuguese

ruínas (debris, relics, rubbish, rubble, ruins), naufrágio (shipwreck, wrack, wreck), escombros (debris, rubbish, rubble), destruição (bale, consumption, defacement, demolition, deprivation, destruction, doom, frustration, overthrow, rack, ravage, ruin, ruination, spoliation, undoing, wrack, wreck, wrecking), destroços (debris, floatage, flotsam, rubbish, rubble, wreck). (various references)

Romanian

ruine (carcas, remain, remnant, rubbish, ruins), resturi a unui vas naufragiat, rãmãşiţe de vas, dãrâmãturi (carcas, remnant, rubbish, ruin, wreck). (various references)

Russian 

крушение (burst up, collapse, crash, derailment, smashups, wreck), обломки крушения. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uništenje (annihilation, blight, breaking up, extirpation, obliteration, rack, undoing), ruševine (debris), ološ (canaille, rabble, ragtag, riff raff, riffraff, scrum, scum, trash), brodolom (shipwreck). (various references)

Spanish

restos (detritus, left overs, legacy, remains, ruins), destrucción (bane, blasting, defeasance, destruction, havoc, obliteration, rape, undoing, wreck). (various references)

Swedish

vrakgods (flotsam, jetsam), skeppsbrott (shipwreck, wreck). (various references)

Turkish

zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe), yıkıntı (debris, ruin, shambles, wrack, wreck, wrecks), hasar (average, damage, depredation, detriment, harm, havoc, injury, mischief, scathe, spoilage), gemi enkazı (derelict, flotage, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, Lagan, shipwreck, wrack, wreck), enkaz (carcase, carcass, debris, rubbish, salvage, wrack, wreck). (various references)

Ukrainian

уламки (debris, detritus, wreck), крах (bankruptcy, burst up, collapse, come down, crash, defeat, destruction, disruption, frustration, ruin, ruination), загибель (bad, bane, blasting, catastrophe, collapse, death, destruction, doom, ending, fate, overthrow, perdition, ruin, undoing, wreck), пропащі люди. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "wreckage": wreckages. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Wreckage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Arechaga. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: gawker, rewake, weaker.

-3 letters: ackee, agree, cager, crake, creak, creek, eager, eagre, grace, greek, ragee, rakee, wacke, wager, waker, wrack, wreak, wreck.

-4 letters: acre, agee, ager, akee, awee, cage, cake, care, cark, cere, crag, craw, crew, eger, ewer, gawk, gear, geck, geek, gree, grew, race, rack, rage, rake, reck, reek, wack, wage, wake.

+1 letter: wreckages.