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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

  • (..) I feel fine. "The Constitution of the United States". Page one, top left-hand corner: "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union." Yeah? Buy it or wreck it! - Holy smoke! - What's the matter? This is murder. You've got to call him off. He's getting nowhere. (..)
    1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington