Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked.
- n. Something wrecked.
- n. The debris of something wrecked.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of wrecking, or the state of being wrecked.
- n. That which remains of or from a wreck of any kind; wrecked material in general.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
- n. That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked
Examples
“In this CNN video tape, Taliban officials display what they call the wreckage of one of the choppers.”
“Perhaps they had time to clear the road of the accident and all the wreckage is gone.”
“Military personnel found the front bumper and were attempting to dig out the wreckage from the landslide.”
Voice of America: Taiwan Rescue Workers Find Bus Missing in Mudslide
“Heavy jungle growth protected the wreckage from the elements.”
“The case is one of the highest profile of several hundred pending nationally as families, insurers and investors sort out the legal wreckage from a now-collapsed boom in the secondary market for life policies.”
“Navy Island covers about 65 acres and there are two beaches, but there is nothing there except the wreckage from the past," says Dale Weston, manager of the Errol Flynn marina.”
“The wreckage from the past is exactly what I am looking for," I tell him.”
“The Earth is in wreckage, a family's dog drags itself home to die alone (a scene guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye of just about anyone, especially pet owners), and after disposing of the corpse, the house itself malfunctions and is destroyed.”
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“Public life in America is strewn with wreckage from the reputations of figures sabotaged by their own lies.”
Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures
“Today, Alex Jones interviews a BYU professor, Steven Jones, who has actually obtained wreckage from the Towers and has proven that Thermite (and Thermate) was used in the collapses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wreckage’.
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Unknown
coalition, cabinet, tweet, defuse, steep, ancestral, mindset, breach, infraction, egregious, curb, backbite and 282 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Unwanted matter
gangue, dross, slag, scoria, refuse, trash, cinder, ashes, leavings, recrement, debris, waste and 37 more...
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-age
condition; result of; account; number of; cost of; place of; collection of; home of; to act
marriage, acreage, postage, steerage, peerage, hermitage, forage, Hermitage, pilgrimage, baggage, blockage, carnage and 24 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Scenariot
Rebellious destruction, police and protestors, or just angry mobs.
bedlam, chaos, havoc, destruction, cataclysm, devastation, mayhem, plunder, ravage, wreckage, destroy, blitzkrieg and 112 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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w5-09/08
virtually, identical, replicant, off-world, colonization, detection, warm up, tortoise, hypothetical, query, provoke, pal and 35 more...
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wordage
-age words
verbiage, decoupage, coinage, slayage, usage, carnage, damage, courage, savage, beverage, language, blockage and 82 more...
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Yet Another Palaeographical Fable
Words found at wordnik.com for the poem "Yet Another Palaeographical Fable"
Tweets
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