wreckage

nounattested in dialogue

//ˈɹɛkɪdʒ//

Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

noun

1
Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.
About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
Explorers have found the 153-year-old wreckage of the Bay State, one the earlier propeller-driven steamships to ply the waters of the Great Lakes.
More recent attempts to salvage general equilibrium theory from the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu wreckage have met with little success[.]

Etymology

Etymology tree English wreck Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -agebor. Middle English -age English -age English wreckage From wreck + -age.

Forms

plural: wreckages

wrath · Great anger; (countable) an instance of this.wreath · Something twisted, intertwined, or curled.wreck · Something or someone that has been ruined.

wreckage · Something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.

wrecked · Destroyed, usually in an accident; damaged to the point of…wrecking · The act by which something is wrecked.wrench · A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.

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