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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

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

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