Definition of Wreck

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Definition of Wreck

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.

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Wreck Quotations

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

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Ayn Rand

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

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
Audrey Hepburn

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.
Kurt Vonnegut

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
Jeanne Moreau

You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
Jeanne Moreau

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt

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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