Usually means: Destruction or ruin of something.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word wreck:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. wreck: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wreck: Merriam-Webster
  3. wreck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wreck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wreck: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wreck: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wreck, wreck: Wordnik
  8. wreck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wreck: Wiktionary
  10. wreck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wreck: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wreck: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wreck: Dictionary.com
  14. wreck (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wreck: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wreck (surf spot), Wreck (album), Wreck (band), Wreck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wreck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wreck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wreck: Rhymezone
  20. wreck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wreck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. wreck: FreeDictionary.org
  23. wreck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. wreck: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. wreck: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. wreck: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wreck: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. wreck: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. wreck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wreck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. wreck [wreckshop]: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Wreck: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See wrecked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something or someone that has been ruined.
noun:  The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
noun:  An event in which something is damaged through collision.
noun:  (specifically, nautical) A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
noun:  (law, not countable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
noun:  (ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
verb:  (transitive) To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
verb:  (transitive) To ruin or dilapidate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To plunder goods from wrecked ships.
verb:  (transitive, Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
verb:  (transitive) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
verb:  (intransitive) To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.

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