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Meaning of train-wreck | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Dated form of train wreck.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“Harmon, the fireman lodger, passing through the kitchen on his way out to work, had paused to tell Saxon about the previous day's train-wreck in the Alviso marshes, and of how the engineer, imprisoned under the overturned engine and unhurt, being drowned by the rising tide, had begged to be shot.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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