Word Finder - wreck

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Something or someone that has been ruined.

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He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

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• basket case, mess

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The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

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An event in which something is damaged through collision.

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Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.

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To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

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He wrecked the car in a collision.

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To ruin or dilapidate.

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To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.

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To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

I was a wreck when you didn't answer the phone.

Just as I ran up to the wreck, it blew.

I'm sure he wouldn't want you to have a wreck trying to get there in a hurry.

As bad as the wreck was, it could have been worse.

He'd be a wreck if he had.

She risked a glance at him, embarrassed at how much of a wreck she was.

And then I saw how good his heart is.  He's a train wreck, but he's honorable and capable of such good.  Kris pulled me into this world and assumed I'd do what I was told like a good little human.  But when I told Rhyn I wanted to leave him, he asked for another chance.  It's like he woke up then and realized he wasn't in Hell anymore or trapped by his brothers' expectations.

I was a nervous wreck as we pulled up to a large vehicle that operated as some sort of command center.

Already a physical wreck, he was borne into Edinburgh Castle in April 1571 and with Kirkcaldy he held this fortress against the regent Morton and his English auxiliaries.

At the wreck of the " Medusa " frigate in 1876, fifteen people survived on a raft for thirteen days without food.

The Dutch government claimed the wreck and granted one-third of the salvage to bullion-fishers.

The Afghans fled through the town; and Ashraf, murdering the poor old shah Uosain on his way, hurried with the wreck of his army towards Shiraz.

The wreck of his force drifted away helplessly towards Genoa.

As a director of the company, moreover, he was suspected of fraudulent complicity, taken into custody and heavily fined; but £ro,000 was allowed him out of the wreck of his estate, and with this his skill and enterprise soon constructed a second fortune.

The threat naturally did not tend to reassure statesmen at Vienna; and the tsar now resolved to prevent the total wreck of the European system by screening the House of Habsburg from the wrath of his ally.

Thus the wreck of the Grande Armee, now not more than fifty thousand strong, reached Smolensk on the 9th and there rested till the 14th.

In the general wreck of the old religion, little survived but the household cult, protected by its own genuineness and vitality.

The wreck of Xerxes expedition is the turning-point in the history of the Persian Empire.

These men have saved for us a few remains from the great wreck made by time.

No one could make the argument that Courtney love isn't a train wreck.

He has stated in his autobiography that through all his early years of struggle, when he was successively grocer's apprentice at Fiirstenberg, cabin-boy on the "Dorothea" bound for Venezuela, and, after her wreck, office attendant and then book-keeper in Amsterdam, he nourished a passion for the Homeric story and an ambition to become a great linguist.

It was the first time she had even looked at it since the wreck.

The newspaper included a photo with the article about the wreck.

Darkness moved in quickly now, and he knew he'd soon need help and more light than a simple flashlight to locate a wreck, if in fact a vehicle had plunged to the valley floor, a hundred or more feet below.

There was when the wreck was hauled into storage.

The islands, though well lighted, are dangerous to navigation, and a glance at a wreck chart will show the entire chain to be densely dotted.

But a romantic interest attaches to the wreck of the " Wager," one of Anson's fleet, on a desert island near Chiloe, for it bore fruit in the charming narrative of Captain John Byron, which will endure for all time.

Save in some parts of Germany, where the influence of Luther saved the churches from wreck, an iconoclastic wave spread over the greater part of Western Europe, wherever the " new religion " prevailed; everywhere churches were cleared of images and reduced to the state of those described by William Harrison in his Description of England (1570), only the " pictures in glass " being suffered in some cases to survive for a while " by reason of the extreme cost of replacing them."

In the case of a foreign wreck the consul is held to be the agent of the foreign owner.

A wreck at any of these speeds could still cause considerable injury.

Schroeder has argued that a strike against Baghdad could wreck the international anti-terror coalition and throw the Middle East into turmoil.

Shot is bang on the wreck, on the edge of the conning tower, opposite side to the picture below.

Which roughly translated a car medical mutual insurance wreck a recalibration of.

The wreck of a small fishing vessel lies within feet of her stern.

Rachel Sylvester meets the comedy waiters paid to wreck your evening.

You see huge wrasse, and my buddy once saw a solitary dolphin on the wreck.

I stopped to photograph one of the colorful ballan wrasse that frequent this part of the wreck.

Wildlife is rich around the wreck, particularly crabs, lobsters and ballan wrasse.

Whether they end up a fighting machine or a gibbering wreck ' ' Or a corpse.

Most people got the chance to explore and penetrate the wreck leaving everybody happy if not battered and bruised.

I'm a nervous wreck by the time I finish the trip.

There's a new boulangerie on the corner, but the burnt-out wreck that was once a restaurant remains a burnt-out wreck.

Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

The Hispania is the most intact wreck in the Sound as it sits upright with its deck in about 15m.

Occasional recoveries were made of small quantities which led to repeated disputes and discussions, until eventually the king of the Netherlands ceded to Great Britain, for Lloyd's, half the remainder of the wreck.

Control over the lighthouse funds of the lighthouse authorities of the United Kingdom, the registry of British ships, wreck, salvage and quarantine are all among the matters dealt with by this department, which also has charge of the standards department for weights and measures.

In his Guesses at the Riddle of Existence (1897), he abandons the faith in Christianity expressed in his lecture of 1861 on Historical Progress (where he forecast the speedy reunion of Christendom on the "basis of free conviction"), and writes in a spirit "not of Agnosticism, if Agnosticism imports despair of spiritual truth, but of free and hopeful inquiry, the way for which it is necessary to clear by removing the wreck of that upon which we can found our faith no more."

Nevertheless, at this the eleventh hour of ter opportunities, Sweden might still have saved something from the wreck of her empire if Charles had behaved like a reasonable being (see CHARLES Peter The Great; Gortz, Georg Heinricii Von; Osterman, Andrei); but he would only consent to play off Russia against England, and his sudden death before Fredrikshald (Dec. i 1, 1718) left Sweden practically at the end of her resources and at the mercy of her enemies.

Stretch yourself, whatever your height, with the pull-up bar that wo n't wreck your door or leave your feet on the floor.

The killing of Bambi 's mother can make a quivering wreck of the toughest cookie.