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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wreckage
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 the wreckage by the fire brigade.
▪ The police have confirmed 40 walking wounded, and 31 people hospitalised who had been cut from the wreckage.
find
▪ Police took two hours to find the wreckage and the bodies of the couple.
▪ She searched the area for three days and verified all my descriptions but found no wreckage of the transport and gave up.
▪ People saw where it fell, but it took rescuers 10 days to find the wreckage.
recover
▪ Throughout that summer more vital pieces of the rear fuselage were recovered along the downwind wreckage trail.
see
▪ There was nothing to see, only wreckage.
▪ But the damaged houses were pathetic to see, and wreckage was still being pulled from alleyways and lanes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Wreckage from the plane was scattered over a large area.
▪ Crews have worked all week clearing away the wreckage.
▪ Investigators are looking through pieces of the wreckage for any clues about the crash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But he drifts away with the wreckage.
▪ He had to be cut from the wreckage of his Ford Focus, which somersaulted when it seemed to catch a siding.
▪ He made two journeys down the path to the wreckage of the car.
▪ He picked his way around the smoking wreckage of the Chelonian tanks.
▪ Many distorted fragments of meteoritic iron are later dredged up from the area where the wreckage fell.
▪ Reacher and the gunner disappeared through the thicket of trees between us and the wreckage.
▪ Traffic was diverted on to the A166 as emergency services cleared the wreckage between Dunnington and Kexby, near York.
▪ You will then have your crew get out and inspect the wreckage firsthand.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wreckage

Wreckage \Wreck"age\ (?; 48), n.

  1. The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.

  2. That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wreckage

1814, "fact of being wrecked," from wreck (v.) + -age. Meaning "remains of a wrecked thing" is from 1832.

Wiktionary
wreckage

n. Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

WordNet
wreckage

n. the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked; "they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors"

Wikipedia
Wreckage (album)

Wreckage is the first album by British DJ/ producer Overseer. Most of its tracks have been featured in an advertisement, film, video game, trailer, or television show.

Wreckage (Transformers)

Wreckage is the name of three fictional characters from the Transformers series.

Wreckage

Wreckage may refer to:

  • Debris

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.