What is another word for wreck?
Synonyms for wreck
rɛkwreck
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Wiktionary
wrecknoun
Antonyms:
restorewrecknoun
To cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
(Usage: A collision is often implied as the cause of the damage - He wrecked the car)
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restorewrecknoun
To ruin or dilapidate.
Antonyms:
restorewreckverb
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
Antonyms:
restore
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
wrecknoun
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"
shipwreck, wrecknoun
an accident that destroys a ship at sea
crash, wrecknoun
a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
"they are still investigating the crash of the TWA plane"
Synonyms:
clangour, shipwreck, clank, collapse, smash, clangoring, crash, clangor, clash, clangwreckverb
a ship that has been destroyed at sea
bust up, wreck, wrackverb
smash or break forcefully
"The kid busted up the car"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
wrecknoun
Synonyms:
destruction, perdition, undoing, prostration, ruin, desolation, shipwreckwrecknoun
Synonyms:
stranded vessel, shipwrecked vesselwreckverb
wreckverb
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
wrecknoun
Synonyms:
desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris, derelictwreckverb
Synonyms:
demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo, raze
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
wreck
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See Train wreck
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2158 | drop | |
#3021 | remains | |
#3865 | accident | |
#4409 | desert | |
#4498 | crash | |
#5264 | destruction | |
#6266 | destroy | |
#7052 | collapse | |
#8009 | mess | |
#11937 | debris | |
#12503 | clash | |
#13346 | smash | |
#13417 | ruins | |
#14530 | abandon | |
#15089 | rubbish | |
#15547 | wreck | |
#18374 | sinking | |
#19402 | havoc | |
#27471 | overthrow | |
#28100 | rubble | |
#29704 | carcass | |
#31515 | battleship | |
#33374 | sunken | |
#37100 | betray | |
#37353 | wreckage | |
#41351 | shipwreck | |
#44435 | derelict | |
#45245 | demolish | |
#57051 | clank | |
#69523 | clang | |
#80120 | derailment | |
#123387 | wrack |
How to use wreck in a sentence?
We are attached to constitutional rights, but we've got people who through all means quite simply want to make a wreck of the republic, to break things and destroy, running the risk of getting people killed, i want us to very precisely analyze things and as quickly as possible take strong, complementary decisions so this doesn't happen again.
Much of the story of this last administration and the next couple of months is a disdain for the workings of government, it's almost as if it's a determination that they want to wreck government and make it as hard as possible for government to do its job. The problem is that leaves a lot of people dead, as we've seen with the virus.
It hits you like a train wreck.
Part of our problem was this unprecedented reality TV campaign, and he being the first reality TV candidate in our history, the media didn’t know how to cover him. It was like they were watching a car wreck or a train wreck all the time.
A supervisor strives to see the light at the end of the tunnel and hope’s it’s not the light of an oncoming train. A bigger problem is to be a supervisor on the train and find that the tunnel has not been started yet. A failing company is often referred to as a train wreck!
Translations for wreck
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- تصادمArabic
- аварияBulgarian
- ruïnaCatalan, Valencian
- vrakCzech
- Zusammenstoß, Schrotthaufen, Wrack, Schrottkiste, SchrottGerman
- καταστρέφωGreek
- destruir, arruinar, choque, cacharro, trasto, ruinaSpanish
- ihmisraunio, romu, yhteentörmäys, törmäys, särkeä, raato, tuhota, jäännös, kolari, romuttaa, hylky, raunioFinnish
- ruiner, carcasse, accident, épave, bousillerFrench
- גרוטאהHebrew
- rombol, karambol, roncsHungarian
- carcassa, carretta, relitto, collisioneItalian
- 敗残, 破壊, めちゃめちゃ, ばらす, 荒廃, 打ち壊す, 解体, 残骸, 衝突Japanese
- 충돌Korean
- botsing, verwoesten, ontmantelen, beschadigen, ruïnerenDutch
- vrakNorwegian
- destroço, choquePortuguese
- аварияRussian
- òlupinaSerbo-Croatian
- sammanstötning, vrak, fördärvaSwedish
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