wreck

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  1. noun The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked; destruction.
  2. noun Accidental destruction of a ship; a shipwreck.
  3. noun The stranded hulk of a severely damaged ship.
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  • Among the killed taken from the wreck was a woman partially burnt. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • Removing the debris from the wreck was also tricky, according to Weber.
  • Ritchie said the wreck was the only weather-related incident in the city Tuesday. —  The Marietta Times
  • Royal, exactly where the wreck was at I don't remember but it was a couple of OU football players (Lynn McGruder and Mark Clayton) pulled a family out of a burning vehicle on I-35 somewhere around Norman, Purcell or something like that. —  NewsOK.com RSS - home
  • The driver of the bus that caused the wreck was airlifted to Pitt County Memorial Hospital,
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

ruin ·  wreckage ·  disaster ·  remain ·  accident ·  crash ·  desolation ·  misery ·  calamity ·  hulk ·  skeleton ·  defeat

Used in the same contextWord Family

wreck:   wrecks ·  wrecked ·  wrecking
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrec, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse rec, wreckage.

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  1. from Middle English wrak, wrek, wrec, from Anglo-Saxon wræc, expulsion, banishment, exile, misery (= Dutch wrak, wreck, = Icelandic rek (for vrek), also reki, anything drifted or driven ashore, = Swedish vrak, refuse, trash, wreck, = Danish vrag, wreck), from wrecan = Icelandic reka, etc., drive: see wreak, and cf. wrack, a doublet of wreck.
  2. from wreck, n.
 

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