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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
wreck
- Alternative form of rocke
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destruction
English
Etymology
From Middle English destruccioun, from Old French destrucion, from Latin d?structi?, d?structi?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?s?t??k??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
destruction (countable and uncountable, plural destructions)
- The act of destroying.
- The destruction of the condemned building will take place at noon.
- The results of a destructive event.
- Amid the seemingly endless destruction, a single flower bloomed.
Antonyms
- construction
Hyponyms
- self-destruction
Related terms
Translations
See also
- devastation
Anagrams
- introducest
French
Etymology
From Old French destrucion, borrowed from Latin destructio, destructionem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?s.t?yk.sj??/
Noun
destruction f (plural destructions)
- destruction
Derived terms
- arme de destruction massive
Related terms
- détruire
Further reading
- “destruction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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