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adjective

as in destroyed

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wrecked

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verb

past tense of wreck
1
as in stranded
to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking many an unwary captain has wrecked his ship on the shoals that surround the island

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2
as in ruined
to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of most of the furniture on the ground floor was wrecked by the floodwaters

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Recent Examples of wrecked
Adjective
Police and firefighters responding to the area discovered the wrecked vehicle along the hillside. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 Hundreds of clay jars known as amphorae were discovered inside the wrecked ship, alongside lead anchor stocks and other artifacts, police said. — Isabella Colletta, NBC news, 10 Aug. 2026 The attack reduced the house to rubble and wrecked outbuildings and cars. — ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026 Police and first responders were already on scene, cutting the roof off the wrecked car to rescue the individuals inside, who were put into ambulances. — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2026 The second flood has left behind more than wrecked homes, reopening trauma wounds for many survivors. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 Likewise, clouds of metal scraps can be seen around wrecked ships floating through Meteos. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 9 July 2026 Clay, along with a passenger, fled on foot, leaving the wrecked car behind, police said. — Jason Green, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 Jury sees wrecked boat, crash re-enactment On the fourth day of trial, the jury hopped into a black Dodge van escorted by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026
Verb
The biggest mistake parents make is adding dates to the calendar month-by-month, only to realize too late that a random Tuesday half-day has totally wrecked their work schedule. — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 16 Aug. 2026 Decay intensified quickly, and the elements broke down most anything that vandals hadn’t already wrecked. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 16 Aug. 2026 Stefano Cerio’s outdoor photography installation about the devastation wrecked by wildfires was nearly engulfed in a real wildfire on Saturday, reported Artribune. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 11 Aug. 2026 Resilience wrecked, but Blue Ghost aced its touchdown, becoming the first private spacecraft to do so. — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 This group of men did stuff that hurt others to often terrible degrees but also wrecked themselves and their careers. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026 Mathias Jensen would provide an extra dose of creativity but Brentford will be hoping Antoni Milambo can make the position his own after his 2025-26 debut season was wrecked by an ACL injury in October. — Luke Bosher, New York Times, 31 July 2026 Elsewhere, La’An continues her investigation via Harper’s personal video log, an effort that takes a disturbing turn when Harper addresses her directly while Kirk sees that their shuttle has been wrecked. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 30 July 2026 Etna’s country prevails but is demolished in the process; its people and animals are left wrecked, hungry, and homeless. — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrecked
  1. ruined
  2. stranded
  3. destroyed
  4. devastated
  5. scuttled
  6. shattered
  7. damaged
  8. shipwrecked
Adjective
  • Sitting on the rim of his consciousness was always cataclysm, the muted whisper of a ruined world.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Definition of ruined
Verb
  • Cox disputed claims Wells was left stranded when his clients, Warren Hudson, 19; Jax Pitalo, 20; and Morgan Seymour, 19, left the area.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Jakob Junis came in to pitch and struck out José Tena on three pitches to end the inning and leave the runners stranded.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of stranded
Verb
  • Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third destroyed over the Moscow region itself.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
  • An airstrike destroyed a house in Ansar town, killing seven people and wounding three others on Saturday morning, NNA said.
    — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of destroyed
Adjective
  • The novel follows two women across half a century as Britain attempts to restore devastated landscapes and bring back species that once lived here.
    — Solitaire Townsend, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The stance leaves other elements of the ceasefire, including the deployment of international forces and any reconstruction of the devastated territory, on hold.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of devastated
Verb
  • An initial public offering was planned in 2021, but those plans were scuttled in 2023.
    — Sharon Edelson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Record-low water levels along the Danube River have exposed dozens of German military shipwrecks near the Serbian town of Prahovo, where an estimated 200 vessels were deliberately scuttled by retreating Nazi forces in 1944.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of scuttled
Verb
  • Twin earthquakes in June shattered Venezuela’s coastal state of La Guaira, transforming a Caribbean playground into a landscape of ruin and grief.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The east Charlotte shooting left church and school bus windows shattered and children crying.
    — Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of shattered
Adjective
  • Many residents continued to sleep outside rather than risk returning to damaged homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • President Abelardo de la Espriella, who had been in office for only three days when the earthquake struck, announced a reconstruction fund for damaged homes, hospitals, schools and infrastructure.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of damaged
Verb
  • In a passage from the Book of Acts, Paul is shipwrecked while sailing for Rome.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
  • They are subsequently shipwrecked, with Odysseus left as the sole survivor on the shores of Calypso’s island.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 17 July 2026
Definition of shipwrecked

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