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Wreck

noun

Something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation. "Thanks to that quack I am a human wreck"

An accident that destroys a ship at sea. Synonym: shipwreck.

A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles). Synonym: crash.

A ship that has been destroyed at sea.

verb

Smash or break forcefully. Synonyms: bust up, wrack.

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"Wreck" Quotes from Famous Books

... the hellish parasite within me would have dashed the stuff into her—— Ah, it will not bear to be thought of! But it must have been for that. Why else should I have brought it? At the thought of what I might have done my worn nerves broke down, and I sat shivering and twitching, the pitiable wreck ...

— The Parasite • Arthur Conan Doyle

... her as her breathing, contended in a vigorous fight against her much too solid flesh. It was a certain aid to wakefulness that her two children, deep in audible slumber, kept her in a state of active concern lest their inert and rotund little masses of slippery flesh should elude her grasp, and wreck the proprieties of the hour by flopping on the floor. There was also a further sleep deterrent in the fact that immediately before her sat Mr. McFettridge, whose usually erect form, yielding to the soporific influences of the ...

— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor

... a merchantman run against a ferryboat, and wreck it, the master of the ship that was wrecked shall seek justice before God; the master of the merchantman, which wrecked the ferryboat, must compensate the owner for the boat and all ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various

... its members, equally responsible with the knave who was the agent of the ruin. A word would have saved the young man; but, in your indifference and disregard of others' good, you would not speak that word. When next you see the miserable wreck of a human being that but just now went staggering past, remember the work of your ...

— Words for the Wise • T. S. Arthur

... heavens, the woman's hideous!' In short, he has learnt to do without us. When husbands and wives learn this lesson, the good ship 'Wedded Bliss' is getting into perilous waters where danger of utter wreck ...

— Modern marriage and how to bear it • Maud Churton Braby

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