wreck

Meaning

Noun

1. Something or someone that has been ruined.
2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
3. An event in which something is damaged through collision.
4. An event in which something is damaged through collision.
5. Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
6. A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.

Verb

1. To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
2. To ruin or dilapidate.
3. (obsolete) To plunder goods from wrecked ships.
4. To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
5. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
6. To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.
7. (informal) To cease or dissolve a friendship or with someone.

Synonyms

ruin

destroy

demolish

crash

spoil

shipwreck

destruction

damage

collapse

devastate

break

disrupt

wreckage

smash

ravage

accident

fall

pull down

sabotage

wrack

mar

destruct

mess up

downfall

shatter

perdition

overthrow

remains

doom

confuse

annihilate

sink

subvert

bust up

tear down

total

trash

undermine

breakdown

break up

disassemble

disaster

perish

crush

quash

bring down

degrade

blight

crack

kill

🔪🩸👤

make bad

ruination

ruins

lay waste

crock

failure

fall down

for

founder

framework

fuck up

go

harm

havoc

hose

hulk

humble

humiliate

hurtle

impair

impoverish

interfere with

junk

abase

lessen

let down

look down

loss

lower

mess

misfortune

mishandle

miss

mortify

motor

muck up

muddle

murder

overturn

precipice

pulverize

puncture

rack

rase

raze

reduce

reject

retard

ride

roll out

rubble

run down

sailing

scrap

scupper

scuttle

shrink

smash up

somebody

something

streak

take apart

take off

toll

make desolate

undo

unmake

upset

vandalize

vehicle

wastage

weaken

wheels

write down

write-off

break by striking

break in pieces

cry down

do for

make a mess of

make a stroke

make sour

make ugly

pull to pieces

shake down

tumble down

mere skeleton

death

💀

transport

muck around with

make rotten

make addled

ark

arkinʼ

junker

abolish

abort

abridge

abyss

ache

bang up

blast

blemish

bobble

bollix

bollocks

botch

brick

broken

bucket

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calamity

car

🚗

clunker

confusion

couch

🛋️

cream

cut up

debase

debris

debunk

decimate

decompose

decrease

deface

defeat

deflower

demean

departure

deprave

derelict

desolation

destructive

devastation

diminish

disappearance

discredit

dismantle

disorder

do away with

doomsday

downsize

draw

draw a line

drop

efface

erase

excision

explode

fail

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹɛk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: wrek

Cognate with Old English: wrecan

Cognate with English: wreak

Cognate with Old High German: rehhan

Cognate with Old Saxon: wrekan

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽

In summary

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).

Sentences

The wreck occurred by the bank on Main Street .