The Meaning of wreck

• (v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
• (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.
• (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
• (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.
• (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
• (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
• (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.
• (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
• (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
• (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
• (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

Synonyms

shipwreck , crash , clangour , clank , collapse , smash , clangoring , clangor , clash , clang , wrack , bust up , destroy , ruin

Homophones

rec , rech , reck

Rhymes

aztec , baek , bec , beck , bedeck , biotech , blech , bleck , bo-shek , bottleneck , breakneck , breck , brekke , brubeck , cech , check , chek , cheque , czech , dec , dech , deck , dehecq , discotheque , domecq , dreck , dubcek , dweck , eck , ek , exec , feck , fleck , francek , frech , freck , gacek , geck , heck , henpeck , jacek , jech , keck , kleck , krech , labrecque , lech , leck , lek , lubeck , macek , mcpeck , mech , meck , nec , neck , opec , parsec , paycheck , pech , peck , placek , polytech , ptacek , quarterdeck , quebec , quek , rec , receptech , rech , recheck , reck , redneck , ringneck , roughneck , rubeck , scheck , schmeck , schneck , schreck , sec , sheck , shek , shreck , sneck , spec , speck , stec , stech , steck , streck , teaneck , tec , tech , teck , tek , trek , turtleneck , vacek , vanek , vanhecke , vanvleck , vasotec , weck , whelk , wnek , yeck , zacek , zech , zeck