The act of wrecking

destruction, demolition, razing, breaking up, ruination, sabotage, smash, breakdown, bust*.

Anything wrecked

junk, ruins, skeleton, hulk, stubble, collapse, bones, scattered parts, rattletrap, relic, litter, pieces, shreds, waste, wreckage, debris.

A shipwreck

sea disaster, sinking, running aground, debacle, foundering.

An accident

crash, car-crash, collision, smash-up*, pileup*, fender-bender*; see also collision 1.

*A person in poor physical condition

incurable, invalid, consumptive, nervous case, overworked person, cripple, mess, goner, washout, scrub, shadow, skin-and-bones, walking nightmare.

To bring to ruin

spoil, ruin, destroy, disfigure, mangle, smash, tear down, raze, break, split, efface, batter, torpedo, tear to pieces, put out of order, impair, injure, stave in, bash in, mess up*, play hell with*, put out of commission*.

Antonyms repair*, restore*, rebuild. *

To shipwreck

capsize, sink, founder, split on the rocks, crash on the beach, run aground, scuttle.