wreck

WRECK, noun 1. Destruction; properly, the destruction of a ship or vessel on the shore. Hence, 2. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land and broken, or otherwise rendered useless by violence and fracture. 3. Dissolution by violence; ruin; destruction. The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. 4. The remains of any thing ruined; dead weeds and grass. 5. In metallurgy, the vessel in which ores are washed the third time. 6. wreck for wreak, is less proper. [See also Rack.] WRECK, verb transitive 1. To stand; to drive against the shore, or dash against rocks, and break or destroy. The ship Diamond of new York, was wrecked on a rock in Cardigan Bay, on the coast of Wales. 2. To ruin; as, they wreck their own fortunes. 3. wreck for wreak, is improper. WRECK, verb intransitive To suffer wreck or ruin.