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Synonyms for wreck
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  1. wrecknoun

    Synonyms:
    ruins, crash

    Antonyms:
    restore

  2. wrecknoun

    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)

    Synonyms:
    crash, ruins

    Antonyms:
    restore

  3. wrecknoun

    To ruin or dilapidate.

    Synonyms:
    ruins, crash

    Antonyms:
    restore

  4. wreckverb

    An event in which something is damaged through collision.

    Synonyms:
    ruins, crash

    Antonyms:
    restore

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wreck

    Synonyms:
    abandon, betray, break down, cast down, demolish, desert, destroy, drop, let go, overthrow, throw down

    Antonyms:
    bear, carry, cherish, hold up, keep, keep up, maintain, prop, support, sustain, uphold

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. wreck

    Synonyms:
    debris, ruins, havoc, rubbish, remains, destruction

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. 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"

    Synonyms:
    shipwreck, crash

  2. shipwreck, wrecknoun

    an accident that destroys a ship at sea

    Synonyms:
    shipwreck, crash

  3. 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, clang

  4. wreckverb

    a ship that has been destroyed at sea

    Synonyms:
    shipwreck, crash

  5. bust up, wreck, wrackverb

    smash or break forcefully

    "The kid busted up the car"

    Synonyms:
    wrack, bust up

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  1. wrecknoun

    Synonyms:
    destruction, perdition, undoing, prostration, ruin, desolation, shipwreck

  2. wrecknoun

    Synonyms:
    stranded vessel, shipwrecked vessel

  3. wreckverb

    Synonyms:
    strand, founder, shipwreck, cast away

  4. wreckverb

    Synonyms:
    ruin, destroy

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  1. wrecknoun

    Synonyms:
    desolation, ruin, havoc, devastation, ravage debris, derelict

  2. wreckverb

    Synonyms:
    demolish, destroy, ruin, shatter, strand, founder, undo, raze

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD5.0 / 1 vote

  1. wreck

    Synonyms:
    See Train wreck

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How to use wreck in a sentence?

  1. Andrew Bates:

    President Donald Trump ran as a disruptor, as the change candidate. But President Donald Trump performance in office has been an absolute train wreck -- now nearly 90,000 Americans have lost their lives and over 30 million have lost their jobs, that makes Trump Biden the change candidate. Trump Biden represents change because the whole country recognizes the urgent need to restore competence to the Oval Office.

  2. Amnesty International Director:

    This latest episode highlights the risks of returning asylum seekers to Turkey – and the knock-on effects the deal is likely to have for refugees transiting through Turkey. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

  3. Emmanuel Macron:

    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.

  4. George Whitehead:

    It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur.

  5. Mike Castleberry:

    They are not for a wreck on the side of the road needing Level I trauma care, only about 15% of the air ambulance charges we see involve those kind of accidents. The vast majority are patient transfers from one facility to the other.


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