- (v.t.&n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
- (v.t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
- (v.i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives or in plundering.
- (v.t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
- (v.t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
- (v.t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
- (v.i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
- (v.t.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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