Wreck

Noun

 * 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.

Synonyms

 * crash
 * ruins

Derived terms

 * shipwreck

Verb

 * 1) To cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
 * (Usage: A collision is often implied as the cause of the damage - "He wrecked the car")
 * 1) To ruin or dilapidate.
 * 2) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. (Australia)

Antonyms

 * restore (2)

Derived terms

 * wrecker
 * wreckage

Adjectives for Wreck
isolated; passive; sunken; pensile; irredeemable; silent; human; stunted; profitable; dilapidated; emotional; colossal; leafless; pulverized; shattered; crimson; moral; mangled; horrid; centennial; complicated; dreaded; ghastly; pitiable.

Verbs for Wreck
avert—; avoid—;  escape—;  explore— glean from—; investigate—; perish in— probe—; rummage through—; salvage— survive—; —annihilates; —blights; —de¬faces; —demolishes; —devastates; —disheartens; —encumbers; —impairs; —impedes; —mars; —obstructs; —scars; — scathes; —strews.

Adverbs for Wreck
deliberately; wantonly; revengefully; vindictively; desperately; hideously; disastrously,' spiritually;   destructively;  insanely; treacherously.

Thesaurus
accident, assault, atomize, attack, auto, autocar, automobile, bankrupt, barbarize, batter, beach, blight, bloodbath, blow, blue ruin, boat, botch, break to pieces, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, brutalize, bugger, buggy, burn, bus, butcher, calamity, car, carcass, carnage, carry on, cast away, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, cleave, collapse, collision, condemn, confound, consume, consumption, contretemps, crack-up, crash, crate, cripple, damn, damnation, de-energize, deal destruction, debacle, debilitate, decimate, decimation, demolish, depredate, depredation, desolate, desolation, despoil, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, devastate, devastation, devour, dilapidate, disable, disassemble, disaster, disenable, disintegrate, disintegration, dismantle, disorganization, disruption, dissolution, dissolve, do in, dog, drain, enfeeble, engorge, force, fragment, go on, gobble, gobble up, grief, ground, gut, gut with fire, hammer, hamstring, havoc, heap, hecatomb, holocaust, hors de combat, hulk, ill hap, impose, inactivate, incapacitate, incinerate, jalopy, kibosh, lame, lay in ruins, lay waste, loot, machine, maim, make mincemeat of, mar, maul, mere wreck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, motor, motor vehicle, motorcar, motorized vehicle, mug, nasty blow, nervous wreck, perdition, pick to pieces, pile up, pileup, pillage, play havoc with, plunder, pull in pieces, pull to pieces, pulverize, put, queer, queer the works, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, rattletrap, ravage, rave, raze, reduce to rubble, rend, riot, roar, ruin, ruinate, ruination, ruins, run aground, sabotage, sack, savage, shambles, shatter, shipwreck, shock, skeleton, slaughter, smash, smashup, sow chaos, spike, split, spoil, spoliation, staggering blow, storm, strand, subvert, sunder, swallow up, take apart, take the ground, tear, tear apart, tear around, tear to pieces, tear to shreds, tear to tatters, terrorize, throw into disorder, total, total loss, tragedy, trash, tub, unbuild, undermine, undo, undoing, unfit, unleash destruction, unleash the hurricane, unmake, upheave, vandalism, vandalize, vaporize, violate, visit, voiture, washout, waste, weaken, wheels, wing, wrack, wrack and ruin, wrack up, wreak, wreak havoc

Etymology
wrek: from wrec:, from  *undefined: (Norwegian and Icelandic rek:), from, from. Distantly related to wreak:.

Noun

 * Finnish: raunio, ihmisraunio
 * French:


 * German:, ,  Schrotthaufen,  Schrottkiste
 * Spanish: ,


 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, , , hylky
 * French:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: roncs
 * Norwegian:


 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese: 碰撞 (pèngzhuàng)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, , kolari
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 残がい (ざんがい, zangai)
 * Korean: 충돌 (chungdol)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: sammanstötning

Verb

 * Finnish:, ,


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