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Look up: wreck

  1. wreck
    [n] - something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation 2. [n] - a ship that has been destroyed at sea
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. wreck
    a ship or vessel that has been cast ashore or sunk HYDROGRAPHIC DICTIONARY Category: General
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  3. Wreck
    Wreck transitive verb & noun See 2d & 3d Wreak .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/54

  4. Wreck
    Wreck noun [ Middle English wrak , Anglo-Saxon wręc exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to Dutch wrak , adj., damaged, brittle, noun , a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icelandic rek a thing drifted ashore, Swedish vrak refuse, a wreck, Danish vrag . See Wreak , transitive verb
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/54

  5. Wreck
    Wreck transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Wrecked ; present participle & verbal noun Wrecking .] 1. 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. « Supposing that they saw the king's s ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/54

  6. Wreck
    Wreck intransitive verb 1. To suffer wreck or ruin. Milton. 2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/W/54

  7. wreck
    1. 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. 'Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.' (Spenser) ... 2. Destruction or injury of anything, e ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  8. wreck
    noun a ship that has been destroyed at sea
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  9. wreck
    noun something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation; `the house was a wreck when they bought it`; `thanks to that quack I am a human wreck`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  10. Wreck
    • (v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak. • (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. • (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. • (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. • (v....
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning


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