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All 5 letters words made out of wreck

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Definitions and meaning of wreck

wreck

Etymology

From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, whence also Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old High German rehhan, Old Saxon wrekan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan).

Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕk, IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛk
• (obsolete, dialectal) enPR: răk, IPA^(key): /ˈɹæk/

Noun

wreck (plural wrecks)

1. Something or someone that has been ruined.

   Synonym: basket case, mess

2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
3. An event in which something is damaged through collision.
   1. (specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
4. (law, not countable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
5. (ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.

Synonyms

• crash
• ruins

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Verb

wreck (third-person singular simple present wrecks, present participle wrecking, simple past and past participle wrecked)

2. (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

   He wrecked the car in a collision.

   That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
3. (transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To plunder goods from wrecked ships.
5. (transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
6. (transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
7. (intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:destroy

Antonyms

• build
• construct
• make
• produce

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Further reading

• “wreck”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “wreck”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “wreck”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “wreck”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.