Usually means: Remains after destruction or damage.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word wreckage:

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  1. wreckage: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wreckage: Merriam-Webster
  3. wreckage: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wreckage: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wreckage: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wreckage: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wreckage, wreckage: Wordnik
  8. wreckage: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wreckage: Wiktionary
  10. wreckage: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wreckage: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wreckage: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wreckage: Dictionary.com
  14. wreckage: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Wreckage, Wreckage (EP) (Ben Jelen), Wreckage (album), Wreckage: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wreckage: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wreckage: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. wreckage: Rhymezone
  19. Wreckage: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. wreckage: FreeDictionary.org
  21. wreckage: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. wreckage: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wreckage: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

Similar:
wrack, debris, wreck, débris, ruin, rubble, rubbish, wrecksite, rags and tatters, shipwreck, more...

Opposite:
salvage

Types:
debris, rubble, wreck, flotsam, jetsam, more...

Phrases:
wreckage features, wreckage feature, fragments of rubbish or wreckage, more...

Adjectives:
human, twisted, flaming, tangled, much, charred, social, general, scattered, main, mangled

Colors:
    rust,     charcoal,     ash gray,     burnt umber,     soot black, more...



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Similar:
wrack, debris, wreck, débris, ruin, rubble, rubbish, wrecksite, rags and tatters, shipwreck, more...

Opposite:
salvage

Types:
debris, rubble, wreck, flotsam, jetsam, more...

Phrases:
wreckage features, wreckage feature, fragments of rubbish or wreckage, more...

Adjectives:
human, twisted, flaming, tangled, much, charred, social, general, scattered, main, mangled

Colors:
    rust,     charcoal,     ash gray,     burnt umber,     soot black, more...



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