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.
To the fair haven of my native home, / The vvreck of vvhat I was, fatigued I come, […]
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
Hard and obſtinate, / As is a rocke amidſt the raging floods: / gaynſt vvhich a ſhip of ſuccour deſolate, / doth ſuffer vvreck both of her ſelfe and goods.
From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak, Danish vrag), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną, whence also Old English wrecan (English w...
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To plunder goods from wrecked ships.