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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wrecked
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague, the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher.
▪ She could see no wrecked cars, planes, military vehicles.
▪ Suddenly the wrecked car was surrounded by uniformed figures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Defying gravity, wrecked buildings leaned drunkenly over the forlorn rubble-filled streets.
▪ Except, of course, for the lone and level sands of the wrecked economy, which stretch away in all directions.
▪ It was wrecked, they said.
▪ She could see no wrecked cars, planes, military vehicles.
▪ Two-thirds of his fleet was wrecked or missing.
▪ Well like a lot of Leeds fans, I got wrecked last night and then hardly got a wink of sleep.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wrecked

Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking.]

  1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.

    Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
    --Shak.

  2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.

  3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

    Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves.
    --Daniel.

Wiktionary
wrecked
  1. 1 destroyed in an accident etc 2 (context slang English) drunk v

  2. (en-past of: wreck)

WordNet
wrecked

adj. destroyed in an accident; "a wrecked ship"; "a highway full of wrecked cars"

Wikipedia
Wrecked (album)

Wrecked is a 1996 album released by Raymond Watts (as PIG). Wrecked was originally released in Japan in 1996, and was later released in the United States on September 16, 1997 by Wax Trax/ TVT Records. Each release is different, with different track run times, as well as different tracks present. A promotional video for 'Everything' exists, but remains unreleased outside Japan.

Wrecked (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Wrecked" is the 10th episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Wrecked (UK TV series)

Wrecked was a comedy reality series that aired on MTV UK in 2007. It was hosted by Lee Dainton and Matthew Pritchard. In each episode, two rivals were challenged to complete a series of Dirty Sanchez-style stunts in order to crown a winner.

Wrecked (film)

Wrecked is a Canadian thriller film, directed by Michael Greenspan, written by Christopher Dodd, produced by Kyle Mann and starring Adrien Brody. It was released by IFC Midnight Films on April 1, 2011.

Wrecked (U.S. TV series)

Wrecked is an American comedy television series created by Jordan Shipley and Justin Shipley for TBS about a group of people stranded on an island. The 10-episode first season premiered on June 14, 2016. On July 6, 2016 TBS renewed the show for a second season.

Usage examples of "wrecked".

It had probably been high tide when she was wrecked, as the water had completely left her.

The doctor had written a note, which he left in the hut, stating the name of the vessel wrecked on the island, and the circumstances under which he and the only survivor of the crew, with a party of English officers and men, had quitted it.

That very night we lost a man overboard, but it was not until some weeks later, after we had been becalmed for ten days or more, that we fell in with the gale which reduced us to the wrecked state in which you found us.

The more valuable stores were carried off, though provisions and other articles were left which might afford assistance to the sufferers of any ship which might be wrecked on the island.

He was bringing gold-- big bars of gold-- back in his ship--and it got wrecked off Kirrin Island.

I have always thought that the gold was safely delivered somewhere-- and that the ship, empty of its valuable cargo, got wrecked as it left the bay!

When you wrecked your own boat against the invisible towers of my home, I took pity upon you, for I saw that I had unintentionally harmed you, and so I gave you a new boat, just like the one that was wrecked.

There was a freighter wrecked by a missile strike, its frame peeled back and half-melted, like a Daliesque flower.

Quiet War had wrecked the economy of the Outer System colonies, and seventy percent of the population depended upon the charity of the victorious Three Powers Alliance.

He had spent more than a hundred days in a forced labor camp, helping to rebuild wrecked agricultural domes.

Saturn, its exhaust a steady, brilliant star beyond the ragged sphere of wrecked ships.

May, when she brought the Churro sheep back to Joe-Johns Mountain, the pieces of the wrecked wing had already eroded, were small and smooth-edged like the bits of sea glass you find on a beach, and she figured that this must be what it was meant to do: to break apart into pieces too small for anybody to notice, and then to quickly wear away.

Dora with her wrecked fucking face who comes in every night and drinks till they chuck her out.

Lanark was pretty sober yet and making eyes at me from his table, and I smiled back at him because he did still use to be handsome then, in a wrecked kind of way.

The ship was wrecked on the Island of Alderney, and all the crew arrested.