wrecked 1 of 2

adjective

as in destroyed

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wrecked

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verb

past tense of wreck
1
as in stranded
to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking many an unwary captain has wrecked his ship on the shoals that surround the island

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2
as in ruined
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of most of the furniture on the ground floor was wrecked by the floodwaters

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Recent Examples of wrecked
Adjective
The Audi driver ran off with his car’s license plates, leaving the wrecked luxury car behind. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 13 Oct. 2026 Police and firefighters responding to the area discovered the wrecked vehicle along the hillside. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Hundreds of clay jars known as amphorae were discovered inside the wrecked ship, alongside lead anchor stocks and other artifacts, police said. — Isabella Colletta, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026 The attack reduced the house to rubble and wrecked outbuildings and cars. — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026 Police and first responders were already on scene, cutting the roof off the wrecked car to rescue the individuals inside, who were put into ambulances. — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 The second flood has left behind more than wrecked homes, reopening trauma wounds for many survivors. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 Likewise, clouds of metal scraps can be seen around wrecked ships floating through Meteos. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026 Clay, along with a passenger, fled on foot, leaving the wrecked car behind, police said. — Jason Green, Mercury News, 7 July 2026
Verb
The 21-year-old from Dallas, who soared to gold in the all-around on Friday after recovering from injuries that wrecked her Olympic hopes in 2021 and again in 2024, hardly looked tired in what has quickly become the meet of her life. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 Just as Bryan’s own ascent began, alcoholism almost wrecked his fellow Oklahoma heroes, Turnpike Troubadours. — Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2026 Some people make money, some people use the buzz to shore up a brand, and some people get their lives wrecked, but who falls into this last category comes down to bad luck more than to justice. — B. D. McClay, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026 Researchers believe the ship may have been traveling from the Levantine coast, which runs from Turkey in the north to Egypt in the south, to Troy or Crete when it was wrecked. — Jack Guy, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 The story centers on an influencer whose life is wrecked by an online pile-on. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 The Nantucket Current reported that the wreck is likely part of a 19th-century wooden ship that wrecked near Miacomet Beach in 1884. — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2026 The plant’s interior pot has drainage holes, hidden in the cachepot, so your plant won’t drown and your hardwoods won’t get wrecked. — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2026 This may then seem like yet another story about how Trump has wrecked norms and corrupted the rule of law. — James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrecked
  1. ruined
  2. stranded
  3. destroyed
  4. devastated
  5. scuttled
  6. demolished
  7. damaged
  8. shipwrecked
Adjective
  • Sitting on the rim of his consciousness was always cataclysm, the muted whisper of a ruined world.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of ruined
Verb
  • Running out of fuel might leave a car stranded, but a satellite keeps moving.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Before midday, rescuers in a state helicopter were trying to reach two people stranded in a motor home after trying to escape floodwaters, said Archuleta County Sheriff Mike Le Roux.
    — MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of stranded
Verb
  • Both the rocket and the camera were destroyed after crashing into the Earth at a speed of about 340 miles per hour.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Cities outside Paris have been hit hard by the unrest, including Limoges where a fire nearly destroyed the 19th-century city hall.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of destroyed
Adjective
  • The Assisi gathering came as the Vatican is accelerating its humanitarian efforts for Ukraine following the entry into effect of a localized cease-fire in the devastated southern Ukrainian city of Oleshky.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Each also wrestles with the devastated idealism of our times.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of devastated
Verb
  • The account specifies that the smugglers scuttled the ship to evade the law.
    — Marcus Librizzi, The Conversation, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The second was about how the no-new-tax pledge scuttled the mission of reducing the budget deficit—a key goal of Darman’s.
    — Bob Woodward, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of scuttled
Verb
  • Clare is now living with Wilcox; her home was demolished in the crash.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The Santa Maria Addolorata Church in West Town is being demolished to make way for six new homes.
    — Marissa Perlman, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of demolished
Adjective
  • Rypkema said the region could look to San Antonio’s Under 1 Roof program, which provides low- to moderate-income homeowners with one-time grants of up to $19,000 to fix worn or damaged roofs.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • There are some health concerns related to PTFE coatings when misused, damaged or excessively heated.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • In a passage from the Book of Acts, Paul is shipwrecked while sailing for Rome.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • They are subsequently shipwrecked, with Odysseus left as the sole survivor on the shores of Calypso’s island.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Definition of shipwrecked

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