Clues for the word "WRECK"

We've had 25 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 62 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on May 19, 2026.

Definition of wreck

v. t. & n. - See 2d & 3d Wreak.
v. t. - The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
v. t. - Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
v. t. - The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
v. t. - The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
v. t. - Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
v. t. - To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
v. t. - To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
v. t. - To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
v. i. - To suffer wreck or ruin.
v. i. - To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.