wreck

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

wrecks

1.
Something or someone that has been ruined.
He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
Đồng nghĩa: basket case, mess
2.
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
3.
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
4.
(uncountable)(law, uncountable) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
5.
(ornithology) A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

wrecks

V_ing/Gerund

wrecking

V_ed/pp

wrecked

1.
(transitive)To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
He wrecked the car in a collision.
That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
2.
(transitive)To ruin or dilapidate.
3.
(obsolete, transitive)To plunder goods from wrecked ships.
4.
(Australia, transitive)To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
5.
(transitive)To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
6.
(intransitive)To be involved in a wreck; to be damaged or destroyed.

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Đồng nghĩa

basket case, messcrash ruinsbasket case, [[mess#Etymology 2mess]]

Trái nghĩa

build constructmakeproduce

Cùng gốc / liên quan

catch wreckwreck carcar wrecknerve-wrecknervous wreckwreck grabwreck havocwreck of the Hesperuswreck shopwreck yardshipwrecktrain wreck

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English wrek, from wrek, from Old Norse *wrek, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (to pursue), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (to track; to hunt; to follow).