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US
/ˈɹɛk/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɛk/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛk/ ]
NOUN
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something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation
thanks to that quack I am a human wreck
the house was a wreck when they bought it - an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- a ship that has been destroyed at sea
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a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane
VERB
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smash or break forcefully
The kid busted up the car
How To Use wreck In A Sentence
- No longer will I worry about favorites wrecking their seasons with three bad games.
- The mangled wreckage of the stricken craft was such that rescue teams had not found him. The Sun
- On one wreck off the south coast we saw huge lobsters scuttling across the ship. Times, Sunday Times
- The bow ranks were flooded; the whole front of the anchorage was a wreck of sunken boats. A Fire Upon the Deep
- Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
- The anchor winch has a large drum on the back, with its axis along the wreck.
- The story is of the utmost simplicity: after a shipwreck, a sailor is lost at sea.
- Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
- Oddly, these TV wreck detectives are always trying to find out something which the experienced real divers nannying them around the wreck discovered when they first dived the ship 20 years ago.
- It was the last big wreck of the steam era on the C.P.R., occurring shortly before I began railroading.
