Definition of wreck

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Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering..

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Wreckage :: Wreckage (n.) That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Lifeboat :: Lifeboat (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people..
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..
Bewreck :: Bewreck (v. t.) To wreck.
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck..
Rack :: Rack (n.) A wreck; destruction.
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..
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..
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..
Rock :: Rock (n.) Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train..
Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..
Wreck :: 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..
Naufrage :: Naufrage (n.) Shipwreck; ruin.
Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
Wrecking :: Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v..
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