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WRECKED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destroyed in an accident
Example:
a highway full of wrecked cars
Classified under:
Similar:
destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb wreck
Context examples:
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be—a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Em'ly couldn't speak to her theer, for her loving uncle was come home, and he wouldn't—no, Mas'r Davy,” said Ham, with great earnestness, “he couldn't, kind-natur'd, tender-hearted as he is, see them two together, side by side, for all the treasures that's wrecked in the sea.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Things are quite bad enough for us, all men of the world, and who have been in many tight places in our time; but it is no place for a woman, and if she had remained in touch with the affair, it would in time infallibly have wrecked her.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
