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Wreck   /rɛk/   Listen
Wreck

noun
1.
Something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation.  "Thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"
2.
An accident that destroys a ship at sea.  Synonym: shipwreck.
3.
A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles).  Synonym: crash.
4.
A ship that has been destroyed at sea.
verb
1.
Smash or break forcefully.  Synonyms: bust up, wrack.



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"Wreck" Quotes from Famous Books



... silent. There was something both solemn and pitiful about this wreck of manhood which was still kept alive ...
— Temporal Power • Marie Corelli
... never set herself against the will of the people, expressed by its legitimate representatives, even when that will may have imposed upon her the sanction of changes which she did not approve. And that is much to say. We have seen young despots whose self-will has threatened to wreck ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... other blessings for mankind. If the members of this club had but migrated to some other building, taking their effects and their constitution with them, the ruin would have been pathetic enough. But alas! the outward wreck was a symbol, a result, of inner dissolution. Through the door of the hoarding the two pillars of the front door told a sorry tale. Pasted on either of them was a dingy bill, bearing the sinister imprimatur of an auctioneer, and offering (in capitals of ...
— Yet Again • Max Beerbohm
... out of capital, "passing" dividends as a means of stock manipulation, accumulating surpluses and cutting "melons" for the insiders, while at the same time crushing labor unions, squeezing wages, and permitting rolling-stock and equipment to go to wreck. ...
— The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition • Upton Sinclair
... "My eyes are dim, friend—my mind is dull. I have lost all memories but the memory of her. Dead thoughts—all dead thoughts but that one! And yet you look at me kindly! Why has your face gone down with the wreck ...
— The Frozen Deep • Wilkie Collins


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