noun

1. goods or wreckage cast ashore after a shipwreck
2. 1. the disabling or destruction of a ship by a storm or other disaster; shipwreck
   2. a ship that has been disabled or destroyed by a storm or other disaster
3. the remains of anything that has been destroyed or badly damaged
4. a person who is physically in very poor health or emotionally upset or exhausted
5. a wrecking or being wrecked; destruction; ruin

Etymology: ME wrek < Anglo-Fr wrec < ON vrek, driftwood, wreckage, akin to MDu wrak, wrack: for IE base see wreak

transitive verb

1. to destroy or damage badly
2. to tear down or dismantle (a building, etc.)
3. to bring to ruin or disaster; overthrow; thwart; defeat
4. to destroy the health, or physical or mental soundness, of

intransitive verb

1. to be wrecked
2. to work as a wrecker