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wreck

Definition

  • noun: a vehicle, airplane, etc., that has been badly damaged or destroyed
  • noun: something cast up on the land by the sea especially after a shipwreck
  • verb: to cast ashore
  • verb: to damage (something) so badly that it cannot be repaired
  • usually used as '(be) wrecked'
  • synonyms: shipwreck, ruin, dynamite

Examples

  • Even though the rumor was false, it 'wrecked' [='ruined'] her career.

  • Dad was a 'nervous wreck' on the day I had my surgery.

  • The stress of her final exams made her a 'wreck'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Actually, I'm not drinking these days. Well, that's your problem in a nutshell. Are we still a family? Of course we're a family. Your mother's in crisis, your father's a wreck. What does that make you? I'm in charge. ...through the woods, looking for fuzzwalker. Then he sees three. And he takes (..)
    2009 The Lovely Bones