Synonyms for wreck
rɛkwreck

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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

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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

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1. wreck

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Accident
   • Decline

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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

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1. List of paraphrases for "wreck":

   shipwreck, wreckage, sinking, naufrage, debris, accident, derelict, battleship, destroy, carcass, mess, rubble, sunken, derailment

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1. wreck

   Synonyms:
   See Train wreck
   

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1. Gordon Lightfoot:

   Every time you wanted to do something, you'd hope it would score. You'd keep trying and trying, and all of the sudden, something would come right out of left field, like 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' No one had any idea about that one.

2. Simone Biles:

   It hits you like a train wreck.

3. Daniel Rye:

   It was terrible. It was a death letter, a farewell to his family, if I were to think of the letter every day, then I would be a wreck today.

4. Memo Gidley:

   It does look like something that would have, maybe in a way, (caused the wreck), it wasn't like there were five or six cars around me. There was only one car ahead of me, and he darted to the right, and I darted to the left, which was the standard procedure. But I never saw that car there. So yeah, maybe the sun definitely had some sort of impact.

5. Louis Bravo:

   When she said it, I kind of looked at her funny. I didn't feel any different. I didn't claim PTSD, but if you ask my wife, I was a train wreck for eight months.