Definition of wreck

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Wreck (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea..

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Wrecking :: Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business..
Wrack :: Wrack (v. t.) To wreck.
Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..
Lifeboat :: Lifeboat (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train..
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck..
Bewreck :: Bewreck (v. t.) To wreck.
Rack :: Rack (n.) A wreck; destruction.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Naufrage :: Naufrage (n.) Shipwreck; ruin.
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West..
Wrecking :: Wrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wrec.
Cradle :: Cradle (n.) The basket or apparatus in which, when a line has been made fast to a wrecked ship from the shore, the people are brought off from the wreck..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves..
Swampy :: Swamp (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked..
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