wreckverb [ T ]
uk/rek/us/rek/C2 to destroy or badly damage something:
The explosion shattered nearby windows and wrecked two cars.
Our greenhouse was wrecked in last night's storm.
informal to spoil something completely:
He has been warned that his behaviour might wreck his chances of promotion.
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- The man is demented - he's going to wreck the whole operation.
- The storm wrecked our garden shed.
- The children have wrecked my camera.
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Destroying and demolishing
- annihilate
- apocalypse
- be sacrificed on the altar of sth idiom
- blast
- blast/blow sb/sth to kingdom come idiom
- fall in
- kill sth off
- kill the goose that lays the golden egg idiom
- knock
- knock sth down
- sacrifice
- sink
- smash
- stave
- stave sth in
- take sb/sth out
- tear 1
- tear sth apart
- tear sth down
- wipe
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Damaging and spoiling
wrecknoun [ C ]
uk/rek/us/rek/C2 a vehicle or ship that has been destroyed or badly damaged:
Divers exploring the wreck managed to salvage some coins and jewellery.
The burned-out wrecks of two police cars littered the road.
C2 informal someone who is in bad physical or mental condition:
The stress she had been under at work reduced her to a nervous/quivering wreck.
More examples
- The wrecks of cars litter the desert road.
- We go diving around the old wreck.
- They are trying to raise the wreck.
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Navigation & shipwrecks
- astrolabe
- buoy
- channel
- chart
- circumnavigate
- lane
- lighthouse
- nautical mile
- navigable
- navigate
- navigation
- navigational
- navigator
- quadrant
- refloat
- sea lane
- shipwreck
- sonar
- sound
- the doldrums
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Not fit & healthy
Of unsound mind