Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The debris or remains of something wrecked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of wrecking, or the state of being wrecked.
- noun That which remains of or from a wreck of any kind; wrecked material in general.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked.
- noun That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something
wrecked , especially theremains ordebris of something wrecked.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked
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Examples
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In this CNN video tape, Taliban officials display what they call the wreckage of one of the choppers.
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Heavy jungle growth protected the wreckage from the elements.
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The Earth is in wreckage, a family's dog drags itself home to die alone (a scene guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye of just about anyone, especially pet owners), and after disposing of the corpse, the house itself malfunctions and is destroyed.
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Public life in America is strewn with wreckage from the reputations of figures sabotaged by their own lies.
Fallout from resume lies can be brutal Padding resumes has brought down many figures 2010
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"The wreckage from the past is exactly what I am looking for," I tell him.
In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica Sarfraz Manzoor 2010
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Military personnel found the front bumper and were attempting to dig out the wreckage from the landslide.
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Perhaps they had time to clear the road of the accident and all the wreckage is gone.
The Calling 2009
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The case is one of the highest profile of several hundred pending nationally as families, insurers and investors sort out the legal wreckage from a now-collapsed boom in the secondary market for life policies.
Judge Allows 'Death Bet' Case Leslie Scism 2010
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Perhaps they had time to clear the road of the accident and all the wreckage is gone.
The Calling 2009
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"Navy Island covers about 65 acres and there are two beaches, but there is nothing there except the wreckage from the past," says Dale Weston, manager of the Errol Flynn marina.
In search of Errol Flynn's Jamaica Sarfraz Manzoor 2010
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