Crossword clues for wreck
wreck
- Vehicle in an accident
- Traffic tie-up cause
- Tow truck's target
- Tow truck's haul
- Total, as an automobile
- Tom Petty "You ___ Me"
- Ship attachment?
- Scuba diver's destination
- Reef-ravaged ship
- Hunk o' junk
- Highway closer, perhaps
- Georgia Tech man, in song
- Fate of the Hesperus
- Bucket o' bolts
- Badly-damaged ship
- Hit 2012 Disney film
- Jalopy
- A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- A ship that has been destroyed at sea
- An accident that destroys a ship at sea
- Something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
- Hesperus's fate
- Road mishap
- Total, e.g
- Loss at sea with not taking care? Not half
- Sunken ship
- Delay cause
- Treasure hunter's find
- Total, say
- Nervous person?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. & n. See 2d & 3d Wreak.
Wreck \Wreck\, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wr[ae]c exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.] [Written also wrack.]
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The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.
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Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.
--Addison.Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
--J. R. Green. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
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The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
--Cowper. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
--Bouvier.
Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking.]
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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. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
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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.
Wreck \Wreck\, v. i.
To suffer wreck or ruin.
--Milton.To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "goods cast ashore after a shipwreck, flotsam," from Anglo-French wrec, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse *wrek "wreck, flotsam" (cognates: Norwegian, Icelandic rek), related to reka "to drive, push," from Proto-Germanic *wrekan (see wreak (v.)). The meaning "a shipwreck" is first recorded mid-15c.; that of "a wrecked ship" is by c.1500. General sense of "remains of anything that has been ruined" is recorded from 1713; applied by 1795 to dissipated persons. Compare wrack (v.).
"to destroy, ruin," c.1500, from wreck (n.). Earlier (12c.) it meant "drive out or away, remove;" also "take vengeance." Intransitive sense from 1670s. Related: Wrecked; wrecking.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something or someone that has been ruined. 2 The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down. 3 An event in which something is damaged through collision. 4 (context legal English) goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck. vb. 1 To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. 2 To ruin or dilapidate. 3 (''Australian English)'' To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. 4 To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
WordNet
n. something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"
an accident that destroys a ship at sea [syn: shipwreck]
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane" [syn: crash]
a ship that has been destroyed at sea
v. smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car" [syn: bust up, wrack]
Wikipedia
Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to found The Waco Brothers.
Wreck is the seventh album by Unsane, released on March 20, 2012 through Alternative Tentacles.
Wreck may refer to:
- Wreck, a ceremony of initiation into the 40 et 8 club
- Wreck (band), an American indie rock band
- A collision of an automobile, aircraft or other vehicle
- Shipwreck, the remains of a ship after a crisis at sea
- Receiver of Wreck, an official of the British government whose main task is to process incoming reports of wreck
- Rambling Wreck, a car that leads the Georgia Tech football team onto the field prior to every game in Bobby Dodd Stadium
- WREK (FM), a radio station at Georgia Tech, named after the car
- In ornithology, an event where large numbers of seabirds are driven inland due to adverse weather
- "Wreck", a song by Gentle Giant from their album Acquiring the Taste
Usage examples of "wreck".
I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish--girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres--I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.
When they brought him to the most dangerous wrecks he held his own, bagged up, and stayed safe.
We correct the phrase, which should read thus: In the year 1512 they departed from Banda toward Malacca, and on the baxos or flats of Lucapinho Francis Serrano was wrecked with his junk, from whence he escaped unto the Isle of Amboina with nine or ten Portugals which were with him, and the Kings of Maluco sent for them.
And with the deep gratitude which she felt towards her benefactress was blended a sort of impassioned respect, which rendered her timid and deferent each time that she saw her arrive, tall and distinguished, ever clad in black, and showing the remnants of her former beauty which sorrow had wrecked already, though she was barely six-and-forty years of age.
The mold that wrecked the biome designed by my parents came in with someone or something.
The money was paid over, and the Rover boys gave the purchaser a bill of sale, and he departed without delay, stating he wished to make arrangements for shipping the wrecked biplane away.
They had been congratulated on their escape from the wrecking of the biplane, and Dora had written to Dick urging him to give up flying.
Abel and Parson Bolden died, and how the wreck not only rebuilt your house, but brought us our new vicar.
When he had first joined the ship, Bowen, who had once been one of the finest surgeons in London, was a besotted wreck, unfit to practise medicine and unable to open his eyes in the morning without a stiff drink.
Basil suffered from the disturbed condition of the country, and when Napoleon came to Bruges in 1810 it was such a complete wreck that the magistrates were on the point of sweeping it away altogether.
Russian lacquered wooden bowls, wrecked cigar-boxes, piles of dingy handbills left over from the last half-yearly advertisement, a crazy Turkish narghile, the broken stem of a chibouque, an old hat and an odd boot, besides irregularly shaped parcels, wrapped in crumpled brown paper and half buried in dust.
The next morning Chubby and I worked for half an hour bringing down the equipment we needed from the whaleboat and stacking it on the gun-deck of the wreck before we were able to penetrate deeper into the hull.
Three of us dived on the wreck - Chubby, Sherry and myself - and we manhandled the stiff black snake of the hose through the gunport and up into the breach through the well of the hold.
So I became one of his blue-eyed boys - we got really chummy - and that was his mistake because we managed to wreck his network completely.
The place did not even justify its name, for it was a cinereous wreck.