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wreck

wreck is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verberb & noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See 2d & 3d Wreak. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 15 · 16 senses

Definitions

  1. 1transitive verberb & noun

    See 2d & 3d Wreak.

  2. 2transitive verb

    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.

  3. 3transitive verb

    Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.

  4. 4transitive verb

    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.

  5. 5transitive verb

    The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.

  6. 6transitive verb

    Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.

  7. 7transitive verb

    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.

  8. 8transitive verb

    To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.

  9. 9transitive verb

    To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

  10. 10intransitive verb

    To suffer wreck or ruin.

  11. 11intransitive verb

    To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

  12. 12noun

    a ship that has been destroyed at sea

  13. 13noun

    a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

    "they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"

    Synonyms

    crash
  14. 14noun

    an accident that destroys a ship at sea

    Synonyms

    shipwreck
  15. 15noun

    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"

  16. 16verb

    smash or break forcefully

    "The kid busted up the car"

    Synonyms

    wrack

Synonyms

crashshipwreckwrack

Common word forms

wreckswreckedwreckerwreckfulwrecking

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