Definitions for WRECK
rɛkwreck

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wrecknoun

   something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation

   "the house was a wreck when they bought it"; "thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"

2. shipwreck, wrecknoun

   an accident that destroys a ship at sea

3. crash, wrecknoun

   a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

   "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

4. wreckverb

   a ship that has been destroyed at sea

5. bust up, wreck, wrackverb

   smash or break forcefully

   "The kid busted up the car"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wrecknoun

   Something or someone that has been ruined.

2. wrecknoun

   The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

3. wrecknoun

   An event in which something is damaged through collision.

4. wreckverb

   To cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

   (Usage: A collision is often implied as the cause of the damage - "He wrecked the car")

5. wreckverb

   To ruin or dilapidate.

6. wreckverb

   To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. (Australia)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wrecknoun

   Etymology: wræcce , Saxon, a miserable person; wracke, Dutch, a ship broken.

   1. Destruction by being driven on rocks or shallows at sea; destruction by sea.

   Fair be ye sure; but hard and obstinate,
   As is a rock amidst the raging floods;
   ’Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate,
   Doth suffer wreck both of herself and goods. Edmund Spenser.

   Like those that see their wreck
   Ev’n on the rocks of death; and yet they strain,
   That death may not them idly find t’ attend
   To their uncertain task, but work to meet their end. Daniel.

   Think not that flying fame reports my fate;
   I present, I appear, and my own wreck relate. Dryden.

   2. Dissolution by violence.

   Not only Paradise,
   In this commotion, but the starry cope
   Had gone to wreck. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   3. Ruin; destruction.

   Whether he was
   Combin’d with Norway, or did line the rebel
   With hidden help and vantage; or that with both
   He labour’d in his country’s wreck, I know not. William Shakespeare.

   4. It is misprinted here for wreak.

   He cry’d as raging seas are wont to roar,
   When wintry storm his wrathful wreck doth threat. Edmund Spenser.

2. To Wreckverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To destroy by dashing on rocks or sands.

   Have there been any more such tempests, wherein she hath wretchedly been wrecked? Edmund Spenser, on Ireland.

   A pilot’s thumb,
   Wreck’d as homeward he did come. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   The coral found growing upon wrecked ships and lost anchors, that are daily dragged up out of the sea, demonstrates that coral continues to be formed to this day. John Woodward.

   2. To ruin.

   Weak and envy’d, if they should conspire,
   They wreck themselves, and he hath his desire. Daniel.

   3. In the following passages it is ignorantly used for wreak, in its different senses of revenge and execute.

   Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen,
   And each hour’s joy wreck’d with a week of teen. William Shakespeare.

   I faint! I die! the goddess cry’d:
   O cruel, could’st thou find none other
   To wreck thy spleen on? Parricide!
   Like Nero, thou hast slain thy mother. Matthew Prior.

3. To Wreckverb

   To suffer wreck.

   With manlier objects we must try
   His constancy, with such as have more shew
   Of worth, of honour, glory, and popular praise,
   Rocks whereon greatest men have often wreck’d. John Milton.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wreck

   see 2d & 3d Wreak

2. Wreckverb

   the destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck

3. Wreckverb

   destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train

4. Wreckverb

   the ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck

5. Wreckverb

   the remain of anything ruined or fatally injured

6. Wreckverb

   goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea

7. Wreckverb

   to destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck

8. Wreckverb

   to bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train

9. Wreckverb

   to involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on

10. Wreckverb

    to suffer wreck or ruin

11. Wreckverb

    to work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering

12. Etymology: [OE. wrak, AS. wrc exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.]

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1. Wreck

   Wreck was an indie rock band formed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988, and later based in Chicago. After releasing three albums the band split up in the mid-1990s, with singer/guitarist Dean Schlabowske going on to found The Waco Brothers.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Wreck

   rek, n. destruction: destruction of a ship: ruins of a destroyed ship: remains of anything ruined: shipwrecked property.—v.t. to destroy or disable: to ruin.—v.i. to suffer wreck or ruin.—ns. Wreck′age, the act of wrecking: wrecked material; Wreck′er, a person who purposely causes a wreck or who plunders wreckage: one who lures a ship on to the rocks for purposes of plunder: one who criminally ruins anything: a person employed by the owners in recovering disabled vessels or their cargo.—adj. Wreck′ful, causing ruin.—n. Wreck′-mas′ter, a person taking charge of a disabled ship and its cargo.—Wreck commissioners, a tribunal which inquires into shipping disasters.—Receivers of wrecks, wreck-masters. [A.S. wræc, expulsion—wrecan, to drive, Low Ger. wrak, Dut. wrak, Ice. reki, a thing drifted ashore; a doublet of wrack.]

2. Wreck

   rek, n. (Spens.) same as Wreak.—v.t. (Milt.) to wreak.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wreck

   The destruction of a ship by stress of weather, rocks, &c.; also the ruins of the ship after such accidents; also the goods and fragments which drive on shore after a ship is stranded. It is said that the term is derived from the sea-weed called wrack, denoting all that the sea washes on shore as it does this weed. A ship cast on shore is no wreck, in law, when any domestic animal has escaped with life in her. The custody of the cargo or goods belongs to the deputy of the vice-admiral, and they are restored to the proprietors without any fees or salvage, but what the labour of those who saved them may reasonably deserve.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wreckverb

   To accomplish something.

2. wreckverb

   To destroy or break up. "All they wanted to do is wreck and flex" -- Public Enemy (Burn Hollywood, burn).

3. wreckverb

   To show great freestyling skills.

4. wreckverb

   To have rough sex with - "Man, she got wrecked!"

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1. wreck

   Song lyrics by wreck -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by wreck on the Lyrics.com website.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of WRECK in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of WRECK in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of WRECK in a Sentence

1. Hillary Clinton:

   Part of our problem was this unprecedented reality TV campaign, and he being the first reality TV candidate in our history, the media didn’t know how to cover him. It was like they were watching a car wreck or a train wreck all the time.

2. Tony Stewart:

   I had the option. I could have done something, but if I did that, I took a risk of wrecking the entire field to win the race, i chose to not wreck everybody, and I don't remember where we ended up, but we were leading until we got to the middle of the backstretch on the last lap.

3. June Jordan:

   Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

4. Gary Richardson:

   I just started bawling, my kids woke up and heard me crying and then they too started crying. We were all an emotional wreck.

5. Robin Thuillez:

   If this goes on, I won't be able to keep paying my rent in Paris and will have to go back to my parents, i'm a wreck. I don't know know what to do anymore. We are not seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=WRECK
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wreck
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=WRECK
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/WRECK
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=WRECK
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=WRECK
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=WRECK