1. Smash or break forcefully
   "The storm wrecked the small boat";
   - bust up [informal], wrack [archaic]
    
2. Cause to experience shipwreck
   "The storm wrecked three vessels that night";
   - shipwreck

1. A ship that has been destroyed at sea
   "Divers explored the wreck of the old steamship on the ocean floor"
    
2. An accident that destroys a ship at sea
   "The divers explored the remains of the ancient wreck";
   - shipwreck
    
3. [N. Amer] A serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
   "they are still investigating the wreck of the TWA plane";
   - crash
    
4. 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"

Sounds like: reck

Derived forms: wrecks, wrecked, wrecking

Type of: accident, declination, decline, destroy, ruin, ship, subject

Encyclopedia: Wreck