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wreckage
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1814, "fact of being wrecked," from wreck (v.) + -age . Meaning "remains of a wrecked thing" is from 1832.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB cut ▪ Gunns had to be cut from the wreckage . ▪ He had to be cut from the wreckage of his Ford Focus, which somersaulted when it seemed to catch a siding. ▪ Mark Windram from Eastfield in Northampton had to be cut from ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked; "they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wreckage \Wreck"age\ (?; 48), n. The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked. That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Wreckage is the name of three fictional characters from the Transformers series.
Usage examples of wreckage.
To her all the wreckage of the slums, all the woe lying beneath gilded life, all the abominations, all the tortures that remain unknown, were carried.
Joaquin and Ament, desiring solitude in which to contemplate the wreckage of his vision of unity.
Granon Bekke, the Warrior Mage assigned to secure all known Ladders, welcomed Cailet to the wreckage with as much aplomb as if vaulted halls and velvet chairs lay within.
He looked around bewilderedly at the wreckage, found Mag again within the shifted walls.
Jimmy was pinned under wreckage, a cerebrovascular accident that had failed to throw him clear of the crash.
So when a man in South America was threatened with the wreckage of his career for using ex-terrorists to inform on functioning terrorists, Devereaux wrote a paper so sarcastic that it circulated throughout the grinning staffers of Ops Division like illegal samizdat in the old Soviet Union.
The ellipsoidal fireball continued its pummeling fire until finally the warglobe shattered, and its wreckage tumbled into the thick canopy.
Rift, I felt my world totter, seeing the wreckage that bastard Evocator had wrought.
Enough wreckage had washed ashore so a rude lean-to had been fashioned from sails and broken spars, but the wood that had drifted ashore from the ship was too wet to do more than smolder on the fire.
We had come quite close to the city when my attention was attracted toward a tall, black shaft that reared its head several hundred feet into the air from what appeared to be a tangled mass of junk or wreckage, now partially snow-covered.
Without dropping his guard on the giff, Teldin pointed to the body of the female he had pulled from the wreckage.
The giff sat stiffly, his massive head held high, eyes pointedly staring at the wreckage.
Said wreckage did not arrive until nearly eleven, which put everyone, even the patient, mild-mannered Hipple, on edge.
Within moments, the nest had been destroyed in a wild frenzy, and Mape was squatting in the wreckage, urinating.
Cind scrambled over the surface of the moonlet, pausing here and there to scan wreckage with the device.