MEANING
1. The damaged remains or scattered pieces left after something has been wrecked or destroyed.
2. What is left of a relationship, plan, institution, or life after serious failure or damage.
Use it for
describing the remains of a destroyed vehicle; depicting broken structures after disaster; showing survivors searching through physical remains; identifying what a destructive event has left behindNames what survives in broken form after a wreck or failure, rather than the destructive event itself. Writing functions: Ruin / Desolation.
Words that belong together
- burning wreckage
- aircraft wreckage
- pull someone from the wreckage
On the page
A strip of red cloth fluttered from the wreckage below the cliff.
They searched the wreckage long after there was any hope of finding him alive.
He built a quiet routine among the wreckage of his former life.
Their letters were all that survived the wreckage of the friendship.
Word forms
- Base
- wreckage
Usage notes
Uncountable noun: wreckage; a piece of wreckage; pieces of wreckage. Not normally wreckages. Can take of, from, or among. Register: neutral. Commonness: common (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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