wreck

1. 1.

   smash or break forcefully

   “The kid busted up the car”

   Synonymsbust upwrack

   Broaderdestroy

Other forms of wreck

plural

wrecks·

past tense

wrecked·

present participle

wrecking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wreck

What does wreck mean?

wreck means "something or someone that has suffered ruin or dilapidation". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wreck?

wreck has 1 syllable: wreck. In IPA it is /ˈɹɛk/.

What is another word for wreck?

Close synonyms include shipwreck, crash, bust up, wrack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wreck a common word?

wreck is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.