In various spec. uses. To wreck (a ship). Obsolete.

To fracture, wreck (a ship). Obsolete.

To wreck (a vessel, mariners, etc.); to ruin or cast ashore by shipwreck. Chiefly passive and in figurative context.

To cause the wreck of (a vessel); to wreck (a ship); = shipwreck, v. 1b. Chiefly passive. Also figurative and in figurative context.

Of the sea or wind. transitive. With prepositional phrase (chiefly with on, upon) or adverb. To cast or drive (a vessel) violently on to rocks…

To wreck (a ship); to throw upon the shore, to strand. Also transferred and figurative.

To wreck (a vessel). Now rare.

transitive. To crash (a vehicle). Usually with up.