Wreck

See 2d & 3d Wreak.

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.

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

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.

The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.

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

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.

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

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

To suffer wreck or ruin.

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

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"