Meaning of Wreck | Babel Free

Definitions

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. A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
   specifically
5. Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
   uncountable
6. A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.

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Examples

“He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.”

“To the fair haven of my native home, / The vvreck of vvhat I was, fatigued I come, […]”

“In 2006, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras was killed in a car wreck in Lake Forest.”

“Hard and obſtinate, / As is a rocke amidſt the raging floods: / gaynſt vvhich a ſhip of ſuccour deſolate, / doth ſuffer vvreck both of her ſelfe and goods.”

“the wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds”

“Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.”

“2. ... Wreck includes the cargo, stores and tackle of a vessel and all parts of a vessel separated from the vessel, and the property of persons who belong to, are on board or have quitted a vessel that is wrecked, stranded or in distress at any place in Canada.”

“[I]n 1952 more than 7,000 were involved in such a "wreck" in Britain and Ireland.”

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