(·vt & ·noun) ·see 2d & 3d wreak.
2. wreck ·vi to suffer wreck or ruin.
3. wreck ·vt the remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
4. wreck ·vi to work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
5. wreck ·vt goods, ·etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
6. wreck ·vt to bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
7. wreck ·vt to involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
8. wreck ·vt destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
9. wreck ·vt 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.
10. wreck ·vt 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.
11. wreck ·vt 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.