Meaning

6 senses
  1. Something or someone that has been ruined.

    He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

    Wrack, Schrott, Schrotthaufen

    a ship that has been destroyed at sea

  2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.

    Wrack

  3. An event in which something is damaged through collision.

    Zusammenstoß

    ава́рияavárija

  4. An event in which something is damaged through collision.

    (specifically)A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.

  5. (uncountable)Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.

  6. A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.

Examples

131 sentences
  1. Tom is a wreck.

    Том — руїна. — deniko

  2. Tom looks like a nervous wreck.

    ruТом похож на комок нервов. — odexed

  3. Tom's drug addiction wrecked his marriage.

    deToms Rauschgiftsucht hat seine Ehe zerstört. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. A stewardess was rescued from the wreck.

    deEine Stewardess wurde aus dem Wrack geborgen. — Sudajaengi

  5. Tom wasn't injured in the train wreck.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
collision:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
ruined object or person:
collision:

Origin

From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (whence Norwegian r

From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (whence Norwegian rek, Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to pursue”, whence Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old Saxon wrekan, Old High German rëhhan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan)), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to track; to hunt; to follow”).

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Forms

plural: wrecks
Singularwreck

uncountable

Synonyms

4 synonyms
crashB1basket case, messruins
Close in meaning
  • a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles):crash
  • an accident that destroys a ship at sea:shipwreck

Word family

10 related words

Collocations

3 patterns
  • the train wreck
  • train wreck
  • is a wreck

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
wreck — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto