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Wreck (?), v. t. & n. See 2d & 3d Wreak.
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Wreck, n. [OE. wrak, AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant.] [Written also wrack.]
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1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
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Hard and obstinate
As is a rock amidst the raging floods,
'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate,
Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. Spenser.
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2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
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The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. Addison.
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Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. J. R. Green.
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3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
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4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
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To the fair haven of my native home,
The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. Cowper.
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5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. Bouvier.
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Wreck (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking.]
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1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
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Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. Shak.
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2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
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3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
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Weak and envied, if they should conspire,
They wreck themselves. Daniel.
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Wreck, v. i. 1. To suffer wreck or ruin. Milton.
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2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
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