different between wreck vs annihilation

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)

1. Something or someone that has been ruined.

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

   Synonym: basket case, mess

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. (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)

1. 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!

2. To ruin or dilapidate.
3. (Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
4. 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

wreck

1. Alternative form of rocke

English

Etymology

From Middle French annihilation, from Latin ad (“to”) + nihil (“nothing”).Morphologically annihilate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??na?.??le?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: an?ni?hi?la?tion

Noun

annihilation (countable and uncountable, plural annihilations)

1. The act of destroying or otherwise turning into nothing, or nonexistence
2. The act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it

3. The state of being annihilated.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture 2:

     If you ask how religion thus falls on the thorns and faces death, and in the very act annuls annihilation, I cannot explain the matter, for it is religion's secret, and to understand it you must yourself have been a religious man of the extremer type.

4. (physics) The process of a particle and its corresponding antiparticle combining to produce energy.

Synonyms

• (act of reducing to nothing): extinction, eradication
• (state of being annihilated): extinction

Antonyms

• (act of reducing to nothing): creation, generation
• (state of being annihilated): generation

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• annihilation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• annihilation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• annihilation at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

annihiler +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.i.la.sj??/

Noun

annihilation f (plural annihilations)

1. annihilation

References

• “annihilation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).