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. transitive verberb & noun. See 2d & 3d Wreak.
2. transitive 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. transitive verb. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
4. transitive 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. transitive verb. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
6. transitive verb. Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
7. transitive 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. transitive verb. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
9. transitive verb. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
10. intransitive verb. To suffer wreck or ruin.
11. intransitive verb. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
12. noun. a ship that has been destroyed at sea
13. noun. a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

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

    Synonyms: crash

14. noun. an accident that destroys a ship at sea

    Synonyms: shipwreck

15. noun. 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. verb. smash or break forcefully

    "The kid busted up the car"

    Synonyms: wrack

Synonyms

crash, shipwreck, wrack

Common word forms

wrecks, wrecked, wrecker, wreckful, wrecking

Words from these letters

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