v. 1 destroy, ruin, devastate, demolish, smash, shatter, spoil, dash (to pieces), reduce to nothing, turn into scrap, annihilate He drove my motor-bike into a tree and wrecked it 2 sink, scuttle, run aground, founder, capsize The ship was wrecked on a reef near Rarotonga
n. 3 hulk, shipwreck, ruins The wreck finally rusted away to nothing 4 mess, disaster, ruin; havoc That man made a wreck of her life 5 destruction, loss, sinking, devastation, foundering, grounding, capsize, capsizing, disabling, disablement, wrecking; demolition, demolishing, levelling, tearing down, razing, pulling down, obliteration The wreck of the Titanic was a major news event in 1912 The wreck of the old tower block is scheduled for next month.