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See 2d & 3d Wreak. |
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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. |
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Destruction or injury of anything, especially by
violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. |
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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. |
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The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. |
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Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the
land by the sea. |
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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. |
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To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to
destroy, as a railroad train. |
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To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to
balk of success, and bring disaster on. |
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To suffer wreck or ruin. |
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To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or
in plundering. |
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