Wrecks Synonyms and Antonyms

Ruin, destroy
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. torpedos
  2. spoils
  3. smashes
  4. ruins
  5. injures
  6. totals
  7. impairs
  8. wracks
  9. undoes
  10. batters
  11. destroys
  12. effaces
  13. splits
  14. breaks
  15. razes
  16. sinks
  17. mangles
  18. finishes
  19. disfigures
  20. demolishes
  21. bankrupts
Antonyms:
  1. creates
  2. rebuilds
  3. repairs
  4. restores
  5. builds
To damage, disable, or destroy (a seacraft)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shipwrecks
*A person in poor physical condition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. shadows
  2. scrubs
  3. messes
  4. invalids
An accident that destroys a ship at sea
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crashes
  2. shipwrecks
  3. collapses
  4. debacles
  5. breakdowns
Antonyms:
  1. creations
The act of wrecking
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. crashes
  2. busts
  3. sabotages
  4. breakdowns
  5. demolitions
  6. destructions
The act of destroying or state of being destroyed
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. wracks
  2. ruins
  3. havocs
  4. banes
  5. devastations
  6. destructions
A shipwreck
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. debacles
To cause to undergo ruin or disaster:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. destroys
  2. blasts

Words Related to Wrecks

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Wrecks Sentence Examples

  • By the time we reached our apartment, both of us were exhausted wrecks.

  • It wrecks economies and never, ever works.

  • Stavanger is the first port of call for northward-bound passenger steamers from Hull and Newcastle, and has regular services from all the Norwegian coast towns, from Hamburg, &c. A railway runs south along the wild and desolate coast of Jaederen, one of the few low and unprotected shores in Norway, the scene of many wrecks.

  • Be this as it may, the Lombards, their ranks swelled by the Gepidae, whom they had lately conquered, and by the wrecks of other barbarian tribes, passed southward under their king Alboin in 568.

  • In the early part of the 19th century the island was chiefly known to Europeans on account of the wrecks which took place on its coasts, and the dangers that the crews had to run from the cannibal propensities of the aborigines, and the almost equally cruel tendencies of the Chinese.

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