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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not wrecked; not ruined; not destroyed. Drayton, Upon Lady Aston's Departure for Spain.

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Examples

  • I'd be interested in a future post that outlined what people could expect to pay for various wrecked and unwrecked cakes.

    Every Breath You Take... Jen 2009

  • At least hers came out unwrecked it just said Merry Christmas or something boring like that.

    Seasoning's Greetings 2009

  • Takes a while to load, but it's so worth it. unwrecked, you really need to see it.

    twelve-month meme jlundberg 2005

  • They are the hope of whatever future the Bush administration manages to leave unwrecked.

    Teen Engines: Riding with the Kid Culture Wolcott, James 2003

  • They are the hope of whatever future the Bush administration manages to leave unwrecked.

    Teen Engines: Riding with the Kid Culture Wolcott, James 2003

  • They'd bend it wholly to their ends, bring their engineers in by the horde, ransack, peer, gut, build over, leave nothing unwrecked except a few museum scraps.

    A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

  • They passed around the wreckage, following the line of unwrecked planes until their way led to a building.

    Daybreak 2250 AD Norton, Andre 1952

  • Nor is it often tough-fibred enough to weather the stress of the first years of married life; and come through the equinoctials of the inevitable adjustment unshattered and unwrecked.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • And how we were sent to this very quiet and unwrecked place?

    Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Keith Henderson 1932

  • The great causeway was a mass of ruins, but the sea-wall, the two-million dollar sea-wall, stood with its front to the ocean, grimly defiant still, the conqueror against the rage of the tempest, and an unwrecked

    The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

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