wreck
/ˈɹɛk/ noun B2- Something or someone that has been ruined. · He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
- The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
- An event in which something is damaged through collision.
- A shipwreck: an event in which a ship is heavily damaged or destroyed.
- Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
- A large number of birds that have been brought to the ground, injured or dead, by extremely adverse weather.
Plural wrecks
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Nevertheless, when Diana and the other girls had rushed frantically around the house--except Ruby Gillis, who remained as if rooted to the ground and went into hysterics--they found Anne lying all white and limp among the wreck and ruin of the Virginia creeper.
There is surely nothing in life more painful than to meet the wreck of a fine athlete whom one has known in his prime.
I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron’s heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.”
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