5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wreck  \Wreck\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wrecked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Wrecking}.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  Supposing  that  they  saw  the  king's  ship  wrecked. 
  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  bring  wreck  or  ruin  upon  by  any  kind  of  violence;  to 
  destroy,  as  a  railroad  train. 
 
  3.  To  involve  in  a  wreck;  hence  to  cause  to  suffer  ruin;  to 
  balk  of  success,  and  bring  disaster  on 
 
  Weak  and  envied,  if  they  should  conspire,  They  wreck 
  themselves.  --Daniel. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wreck  \Wreck\,  n.  [OE.  wrak,  AS  wr[ae]c  exile,  persecution, 
  misery,  from  wrecan  to  drive  out  punish;  akin  to  D.  wrak, 
  adj.,  damaged,  brittle,  n.,  a  wreck,  wraken  to  reject,  throw 
  off  Icel.  rek  a  thing  drifted  ashore,  Sw  vrak  refuse,  a 
  wreck,  Dan.  vrag.  See  {Wreak},  v.  t.,  and  cf  {Wrack}  a 
  marine  plant.]  [Written  also  {wrack}.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  Hard  and  obstinate  As  is  a  rock  amidst  the  raging 
  floods,  'Gainst  which  a  ship,  of  succor  desolate, 
  Doth  suffer  wreck,  both  of  herself  and  goods. 
  --Spenser. 
 
  2.  Destruction  or  injury  of  anything  especially  by  violence; 
  ruin;  as  the  wreck  of  a  railroad  train. 
 
  The  wreck  of  matter  and  the  crush  of  worlds. 
  --Addison. 
 
  Its  intellectual  life  was  thus  able  to  go  on  amidst 
  the  wreck  of  its  political  life.  --J.  R.  Green. 
 
  3.  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. 
 
  4.  The  remain  of  anything  ruined  or  fatally  injured. 
 
  To  the  fair  haven  of  my  native  home,  The  wreck  of 
  what  I  was  fatigued  I  come  --Cowper. 
 
  5.  (Law)  Goods,  etc.,  which  after  a  shipwreck,  are  cast  upon 
  the  land  by  the  sea.  --Bouvier. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wreck  \Wreck\,  v.  t.  &  n. 
  See  2d  &  3d  {Wreak}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wreck  \Wreck\,  v.  i. 
  1.  To  suffer  wreck  or  ruin.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  To  work  upon  a  wreck,  as  in  saving  property  or  lives,  or 
  in  plundering. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wreck 
  n  1:  something  or  someone  that  has  suffered  ruin  or  dilapidation; 
  "the  house  was  a  wreck  when  they  bought  it";  "thanks  to 
  that  quack  I  am  a  human  wreck" 
  2:  an  accident  that  destroys  a  ship  at  sea  [syn:  {shipwreck}] 
  3:  a  serious  accident  (usually  involving  one  or  more  vehicles); 
  "they  are  still  investigating  the  crash  of  the  TWA  plane" 
  [syn:  {crash}] 
  4:  a  ship  that  has  been  destroyed  at  sea 
  v  :  smash  or  break  forcefully;  "The  kid  busted  up  the  car"  [syn: 
  {bust  up},  {wrack}] 

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