WRECKED

wrecked

(adjective) destroyed in an accident; “a wrecked ship”; “a highway full of wrecked cars”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

wrecked (comparative more wrecked, superlative most wrecked)

Destroyed, usually in an accident; damaged to the point of unusability.

(slang) Very intoxicated from alcohol and/or other drugs.

(internet slang) Having been put in a dreadful or embarrassing situation; can range from being pwned in a game to being utterly defeated in an argument or publicly shamed with a stinging insult.

Synonyms

• (destroyed): annihilated, awrack, eradicated, irrepairable, ruined

• (intoxicated): See drunk or stoned

• (utterly defeated or shamed): rekt

Verb

wrecked

simple past tense and past participle of wreck

Source: Wiktionary


WRECK

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



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