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.
Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
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.
The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
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.
To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
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"
an accident that destroys a ship at sea
a ship that has been destroyed at sea
verb, to suffer destruction, to be destructed