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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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   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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   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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   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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   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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   (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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   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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   To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
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   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.
   To suffer wreck or ruin.
   Milton.
   
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   To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
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