Wreck - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |rek|  American pronunciation of the word wreck
Brit.  |rek|  British pronunciation of the word wreck

noun

- 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
- an accident that destroys a ship at sea (syn: shipwreck)
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles) (syn: crash)
- a ship that has been destroyed at sea

verb

- smash or break forcefully (syn: bust up, wrack)

Extra examples

This car has never been in a wreck.

The stress of her final exams made her a wreck.

Dad was a nervous wreck on the day I had my surgery.

I wrecked my mother's car.

Many houses were wrecked by the hurricane.

The affair wrecked his marriage.

Bad weather wrecked our vacation.

He was killed in a car wreck.

The car was a total wreck.

We thought of buying the house as a wreck, doing it up, then selling it.

The house was a wreck after the party.

The Republican party was formed out of the wrecks of the Whig party.

A great number of ships were wrecked by stormy weather.

I wonder your nervous system isn't completely wrecked.

Their plans were wrecked.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: wreck
he/she/it: wrecks
present participle: wrecking
past tense: wrecked
past participle: wrecked
noun
singular: wreck
plural: wrecks
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