wreck – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to wreck
Participle: wrecked
Gerund: wrecking

Cognates

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Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	wreck
we	Let's wreck
you	wreck

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

throw away

discard, ditch, dump, junk, scrap, throw away, throw out, toss, trash

to reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate

benothing, bewreck, blot out, blotto, erase, fuck, jazz, liquidate, nuke, pull down, ravage, remove, destroy, total, wipe off

to put to death; to extinguish life.

annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out

destroy

demolish, devastate, smash, ruin, shatter, spoil, raze, efface

shipwreck

sink, capsize, founder, scuttle

Antonyms

to construct

demolish, destroy, knock down, ruin, take apart, tear down, build

destroy

construct, build, create, originate

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. 1228, "goods cast ashore after a shipwreck, flotsam," from Anglo-Fr. wrec, from O.N. *wrek (cf. Norw., Icel. rek) "wreck, flotsam," related to reka "to drive, push" (see wreak). The meaning "a shipwreck" is first recorded 1463; that of "a wrecked ship" is from 1500. General sense of "remains of anything that has been ruined" is recorded from 1713; applied by 1795 to dissipated persons. The verb meaning "to destroy, ruin" is first recorded 1510. Wreckage is first attested 1837.
2. From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (whence Norwegian rek, Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną (“to pursue”, whence Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old Saxon wrekan, Old High German rëhhan, Gothic 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan)), from Proto-Indo-European *wreg- (“to track; to hunt; to follow”). See: Old English 'wrecan', English 'wreak', Old Saxon 'wrekan', Old High German 'rëhhan', Proto-Germanic '*wrekaną'.

Verbs referencing "wreck"

English wreak, Latin urgeo.

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