Synonyms for wreckage
ˈrɛk ɪdʒwreck·age

Princeton's WordNet

1. wreckagenoun

   the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked

   "they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors"

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1. List of paraphrases for "wreckage":

   wreck, debris, rubble, shipwreck, carcase, derelict, carcass

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1. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak:

   No words can describe the pain the families of those on board are going through, the lack of answers and definitive proof -- such as aircraft wreckage -- has made this more difficult to bear.

2. Virginia Woolf:

   Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

3. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott:

   I presume that if this wreckage does turn out to be from a Boeing 777 that the analysts will do their best ... to try to work out exactly where it came from, i don't know how accurate that will be but I dare say it will give us some more evidence and it might enable us to further refine the search area, it might.

4. The NTSB:

   We don't want anything to become entangled in the mast and the wreckage around it.

5. Craig McClain:

   Near the wreckage and wellhead, many of the animals characteristic of other areas of the deep Gulf of Mexico, including sea cucumbers, giant isopods, glass sponges and whip corals, were absent, what we observed was a homogenous wasteland, in great contrast to the rich heterogeneity of life seen in a healthy deep sea.