1. (v. t. & n.) See Wreak.

2. (n.) 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.

3. (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.

4. (n.) 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.

5. (n.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.

6. (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.

7. (v. t.) 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.

8. (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.

9. (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

10. (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.

11. (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

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