Definition of wreck

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Wreck (v. t.) 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..

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Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
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..
Picaroon :: Picaroon (n.) One who plunders; especially, a plunderer of wrecks; a pirate; a corsair; a marauder; a sharper..
Wreck-master :: Wreck-master (n.) A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck..
Wrecked :: Wrecked (imp. & p. p.) of Wrec.
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Wreckful :: Wreckful (a.) Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
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..
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..
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..
Rock :: Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest..
Wreckage :: Wreckage (n.) That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..
Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..
Shipwrecking :: Shipwrecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shipwrec.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on..
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