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Definition: Wrecked |
WreckedAdjective1. Destroyed in an accident; "a wrecked ship"; "a highway full of wrecked cars". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wrecked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Aground, grounded, swamped, stranded, cast away, wrecked, foundered, capsized, shipwrecked, nonsuited; foiled; defeated; struck down, borne down, broken down; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; all up with; ploughed, plowed, plucked. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Wrecked |
| English words defined with "wrecked": barnacled ♦ hulk ♦ Jaws of Life ♦ Life car ♦ shipwreck ♦ To go to the bottom, tow car, tow truck ♦ wreckage, wrecker, Wrecking pump. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "wrecked": AUTOMOBILE WRECKER ♦ Fair Havens ♦ Grace Darling, Guido ♦ Inchcape Rock ♦ Lord ♦ Mast, Melita, Myra ♦ RECLAMATION WORKER ♦ SERVICE MECHANIC, shipwrecked person, SUPERVISOR, RECLAMATION ♦ wrecking mechanic ♦ ZEPPELIN. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | First, we go in there and get wrecked, then we eat a pork pie, then we drop some Surmontil-50's each (Withnail and I; writing credit: Bruce Robinson.) A Cromwell would send our ariel fleet to blow a German city to Hades each time the foe wrecked one of our towns (Labour of Love; writing credit: Andrea Piva) Are you the one who wrecked the buffet at the Harrow Club this morning (Beverly Hills Cop ; writing credit: Daniel Petrie Jr.) Is this the man who wrecked the buffet at the Harrow club this morning (Beverly Hills Cop; writing credit: Danilo Bach; Daniel Petrie Jr.) You wrecked everything for me that isn't about you. (Ginger Snaps; writing credit: Karen Walton; John Fawcett) | |
Lyrics | There's a whole new generation waiting to be wrecked by you (Cyclops Rock; performing artist: They Might Be Giants) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sheep Wrecked (1958) The Girl Who Wrecked His Home (1916) Wrecked on Cannibal Island (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A 90-foot tower wrecked by a storm Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Looking through the twisted steel of a 90-foot tower wrecked by a storm Triangulation party of E. O. Heaton. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Remains of a wrecked cargo plane. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Wrecked Taiwanese tuna vessel. Still had tons of tuna on board. Thousands of rats had taken over ship with relatively unlimited food supply. Credit: Small World. |
 | Members of the 653rd Combat Logistics Support Squadron from Robins Air Force Base, Ga., prepare a wrecked C-130 Hercules that was moved Nov. 20 from Kuwait City International Airport, Kuwait, to the "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ar. |  | Washington, D.C. Interiors of wrecked homes on Independence Ave., across from the Smithsonian Institute P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Gordon R. Parks.. |
 | Cabinet card photograph by J. Williams, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii. It was probably taken in 1887-1889, when Captain Schoonmaker commanded USS Vandalia on the Pacific Station. He was drowned when Vandalia was wrecked in the 15-16 March 1889 hurricane at Apia, Samoa. Credit: NAVY. |  | Men pay their respects at the grave of Captain Cornelius M. Schoonmaker, USN, Commanding Officer of USS Vandalia, who lost his life when his ship was wrecked during the storm. He was buried near Apia, Upolu, Samoa. Photographed shortly after the disaster. Those present are (from left to right): Mr. Hart, news correspondent; Mr. J.P. Dunning, Associated Press correspondent; Chief Engineer Albert S. Greene, of USS Vandalia; Ensign John H. Gibbons, of USS Vandalia; Lieutenant James W. Carlin, of USS Vandalia; two unidentified men; and Captain Norman H. Farquhar, Commanding Officer of USS Trenton. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Spanish Civil War: 1,000,000 dead, $20,000,000,000 lost, 32 months of terror, ruined cities, wrecked homes, bombed factories, lost treasures, farms injured / Willard Combes. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wrecked motorist: Kind of hard luck, isn't it? : Passerby: Yes, but the trolley'll be along in a coupla' minutes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Shipwreck" by Scheer Jozsef Commentary: "A wrecked ship on marmara deniz." |
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt | Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. |
Sarah Orne Jewett | Wrecked on the lee shore of age. |
Winston Churchill | My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Al looked into the lot at the wrecked cars |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence. Miss Sallie Ann Splurge, of her own accord, Wedded a wandering English lord -- Wedded and took him to dwell with her "paw," A parent who throve by the practice of Draw. Lord Cadde I don't hesitate to declare Unworthy the father-in-legal care Of that elderly sport, notwithstanding the truth That Cadde had renounced all the follies of youth; For, sad to relate, he'd arrived at the stage Of existence that's marked by the vices of age. Among them, cupidity caused him to urge Repeated demands on the pocket of Splurge, Till, wrecked in his fortune, that gentleman saw Inadequate aid in the practice of Draw, And took, as a means of augmenting his pelf, To the business of being a lord himself. His neat-fitting garments he wilfully shed And sacked himself strangely in checks instead; Denuded his chin, but retained at each ear A whisker that looked like a blasted career. He painted his neck an incarnadine hue Each morning and varnished it all that he knew. The moony monocular set in his eye Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye. His head was enroofed with a billycock hat, And his low-necked shoes were aduncous and flat. In speech he eschewed his American ways, Denying his nose to the use of his A's And dulling their edge till the delicate sense Of a babe at their temper could take no offence. His H's -- 'twas most inexpressibly sweet, The patter they made as they fell at his feet! Re-outfitted thus, Mr. Splurge without fear Began as Lord Splurge his recouping career. Alas, the Divinity shaping his end Entertained other views and decided to send His lordship in horror, despair and dismay From the land of the nobleman's natural prey. For, smit with his Old World ways, Lady Cadde Fell -- suffering Caesar! -- in love with her dad! G.J. |
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Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | One civilization after another has been wrecked upon the attempt to secure sufficient leadership from a single group or class. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Organized government had ceased to exist, transportation systems had been wrecked, cities and industrial facilities had been bombed into ruins. |
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| "Wrecked" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 42.40% of the time. "Wrecked" is used about 441 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 42.4% | 187 | 22,491 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 29.93% | 132 | 27,743 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 26.76% | 118 | 29,674 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.68% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 441 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "wrecked": be wrecked ♦ totaled wrecked ♦ wrecked sailor. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "wrecked": injury-wrecked, riot-wrecked, y-wrecked. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "wrecked"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mbytur (drowned, hollow, muffled, muted, strangulated, suffocated, throttled). (various references) | |
Arabic | مهدوم (subverted). (various references) | |
Chinese | 击毁 (Wreck, 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, wreck). (various references) | |
Danish | stenet (stoned, stony, to crash, wasted, wiped out), basket (wasted, wiped out). (various references) | |
Finnish | haaksirikkoinen (castaway, shipwrecked person). (various references) | |
French | par terre, naufragé, démoli, défoncé, crevé, camé, anéanti, épuisé. (various references) | |
German | zertrümmert (smashes), versaute. (various references) | |
Greek | καταστρεμμένος, σαραβαλιασμένοσ (decrepit, decrepitude, dilapidated), σαραβαλιασμένος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | tönkrejutott, hajótörött (castaway, stranded). (various references) | |
Italian | tossicomane pesante (wasted, wiped out), distrussi (ruined). (various references) | |
Korean | 난파하는. (various references) | |
Manx | mooirchoorit (shipwrecked), brisht (bankrupt, breached, broke, bust, cracked, deposed, deprived, discontinuous, fragmentary, insolvent, ruined, ruptured, shipwrecked, smashed, stony-broke). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eckedwray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | naufragado, janado (hard-core addict, junkie, smacker, smackhead, wasted, wiped out), em ruínas (dilapidated, ramshackle, ruinous, tumbledown), em escombros, devastado (devastated, waste), destruído (kaput, warworn), avariado (broken down, damaged, disabled, unsound), arruinado (broken-down, impaired, kaput, ruinous, undone). (various references) | |
Romanian | naufragiat (by the board, castaway, shipwrecked, stranded). (various references) | |
Russian | аварию, потерпевший кораблекрушение (shipwrecked). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | upropašćen (lost, spoiled, washed up), koji je preživeo brodolom. (various references) | |
Spanish | naufragar (be wrecked, fail, sink). (various references) | |
Swedish | skeppsbruten (castaway, shipwrecked), havererad. (various references) | |
Turkish | mahvolmuş (all up, banged up, bankrupt, damaged, gone, kaput, lost, perished, ruined, undone, up the spout, washed up), kaza yapmış, karaya oturmuş (aground, stranded), harap olmuş (up the spout), bozulmuş (abashed, broken down, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, gone, out, putrid, rank, ropy, ruined, spoilt, unmade, upset, withered). (various references) | |
Welsh | candryll (shattered). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "wrecked": shipwrecked. (additional references) | |
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"Wrecked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: recced, Warncke, wreched, wreeked, wricked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wrecked" (pronounced re"kt) |
| 4 | r e" k t | erect, misdirect, trekked. |
| 3 | -e" k t | affect, bedecked, checked, collect, confect, connect, correct, decked, deflect, deject, detect, direct, disaffect, disconnect, disinfect, disrespect, dissect, effect, eject, elect, expect, incorrect, indirect, infect, inflect, inject, inspect, interconnect, interject, intersect, necked, neglect, overprotect, perfect, protect, rechecked, recollect, reconnect, redirect, reelect, reflect, reinspect, reject, respect, resurrect, sect, select, subject, suspect, unchecked, wecht. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-k-r-w" | |
-1 letter: crewed, decker, recked. | |
-2 letters: ceder, cered, creed, creek, dreck, rewed, wreck. | |
-3 letters: cede, cere, crew, deck, deer, deke, dere, dree, drek, drew, eked, ewer, reck, rede, reed, reek, weed, week, weer, were. | |
-4 letters: cee, dee, dew, eke, ere, ewe, rec, red, ree, wed, wee. | |
-5 letters: de, ed, er, re, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-k-r-w" | |
+1 letter: rockweed, wickeder. | |
+2 letters: rockweeds, whickered. | |
+3 letters: checkrowed, peckerwood, woodpecker. | |
+4 letters: corkscrewed, peckerwoods, shipwrecked, wisecracked, woodpeckers. | |
+5 letters: pickerelweed. | |
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