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dreck
English
Alternative forms
- drek
Etymology
From Yiddish ????? (drek, “dirt, crap”), from Middle High German drek, from Old High German *threc (in m?sthrec), from Proto-West Germanic *þraki, from Proto-Germanic *þrakjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter?-, *(s)ter?-, *(s)tre?- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Compare Dutch drek (“dung; semi-liquid filth; mud”), German Dreck (“dirt; filth”), Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dr?k, IPA(key): /d??k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
dreck (uncountable)
- (informal) Trash; worthless merchandise.
- Synonyms: crap, junk, trash; see also Thesaurus:trash
Derived terms
- dreckish
- drecky
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wreck
English
Etymology
From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak), from Proto-Germanic *wrekan?, whence also Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old High German rehhan, Old Saxon wrekan, Gothic ???????????????????????? (wrikan).
Pronunciation
- enPR: r?k, IPA(key): /???k/
- Rhymes: -?k
Noun
wreck (plural wrecks)
- Something or someone that has been ruined.
- He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
- Synonym: basket case, mess
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
- 1779, William Cowper, Retirement
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
- the wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds
- Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.
- 1883, John Richard Green, The Conquest of England
- Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
- (law) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
Synonyms
- crash
- ruins
Derived terms
- catch wreck
- shipwreck
- train wreck
Translations
Verb
wreck (third-person singular simple present wrecks, present participle wrecking, simple past and past participle wrecked)
- To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
- He wrecked the car in a collision.
- That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
- To ruin or dilapidate.
- (Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
- To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- Weak and envy'd, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves, and he hath his Desire.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Antonyms
- build
- construct
- make
- produce
Derived terms
- bewreck
- wrecker
- wreckage
Translations
References
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Noun
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- Alternative form of rocke
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