Wreck
Definition of Wreck
| v. t. & n. | 1. | See 2d & 3d Wreak. | | n. | 1. | | | 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. | | 2. | Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. | | 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. | | 5. | (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. | | v. t. | 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. | | 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. | | v. i. | 1. | To suffer wreck or ruin. | | 2. | To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. |
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