Definition of wreck

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Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train..

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Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) 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..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea..
Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..
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..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) Destruction or diminution of value, if brought about in a manner provided for in the insurance contract (as destruction by fire or wreck, damage by water or smoke), or the death or injury of an insured person; also, the sum paid or payable therefor; as, the losses of the company this year amount to a million of dollars..
Rack :: Rack (n.) A wreck; destruction.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) 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..
Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering..
Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..
Hoveler :: Hoveler (n.) One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
Rock :: Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel..
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..
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.
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