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Definition of Wreck
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Wreck
See 2d & 3d Wreak. 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. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. 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. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. 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. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. To suffer wreck or ruin. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. Related Definitions:
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Wreck Quotations
You win some, lose some, and wreck some. Dale Earnhardt I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. Abraham Lincoln Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. Ambrose Bierce If it's going to be wrecked, I want to make sure I wreck it. Kevin Costner The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. Ernest Hemingway |
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Wreck Translations
wreck in Italian is naufragio, disfare, guaio wreck in Latin is pessum dare wreck in Spanish is naufragio, desbaratar wreck in Swedish is vrak, skeppsbrott |
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