wreck
(noun) a ship that has been destroyed at sea
crash, wreck
(noun) a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles); “they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane”
shipwreck, wreck
(noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea
wreck
(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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
wreck (plural wrecks)
Something or someone that has been ruined.
Synonym: basket case, mess
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
(legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
• crash
• ruins
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.
To ruin or dilapidate.
(Australian English) 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.
• See also destroy
• build
• construct
• make
• produce
Source: Wiktionary
Wreck, v. t. & n.
Definition: See 2d & 3d Wreak.
Wreck, n. Etym: [OE. wrak, AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.] [Written also wrack.]
1. 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. Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. Spenser.
2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. Addison. Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. J. R. Green.
3. 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.
4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. To the fair haven of my native home, The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. Cowper.
5. (Law)
Definition: Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. Bouvier.
Wreck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking.]
1. 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. Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. Shak.
2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves. Daniel.
Wreck, v. i.
1. To suffer wreck or ruin. Milton.
2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 February 2025
(noun) an advantageous purchase; “she got a bargain at the auction”; “the stock was a real buy at that price”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
