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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Naufragous :: Naufragous (a.) causing shipwreck.
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..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
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..
Wrecking :: Wrecking () a. & n. from Wreck, v..
Jettison :: "Jettison (n.) The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck..
Wrack :: Wrack (n.) Wreck; ruin; destruction.
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering..
Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..
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..
Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate.
Wrecker :: Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers.
Wreckfish :: Wreckfish (n.) A stone bass.
Swamp :: Swamp (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.
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..
Castaway :: Castaway (n.) One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked..
Wreck :: Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train..
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..
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