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wreckage

/ˈɹɛkɪdʒ/

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

wreckage: something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or...
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Noun

wreckage (countable and uncountable, plural wreckages)

  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.1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232
    • 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.2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN

wreckage meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

wreckage in Tamil

இடிபாடு, அழிபாடு, சிதைவுகள்

wreckage in Urdu

ملبہ

wreckage in Malayalam

കപ്പൽച്ചേതം വരുത്തൽ, തകർന്ന കപ്പലിൻറെ അവശിഷ്ടം, ഉടഞ്ഞ കപ്പൽ

wreckage in Kannada

ಭಗ್ನಾವಶೇಷ, ನಾಶವಾಗಿ ಉಳಿದ ಚೂರುಗಳು, ಹರಕು ಮುರುಕುಗಳು, ಒಡೆದುಳಿಕೆ

Examples of wreckage in a sentence

  • The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in.2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
  • More recent attempts to salvage general equilibrium theory from the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu wreckage have met with little success[.]2024, Jeremy B. Rudd, A Practical Guide to Macroeconomics, page 2:

All 21 example sentences with wreckage

Forms of wreckage

pluralwreckages

Origin of wreckage

From wreck + -age.

Questions about wreckage

What does wreckage mean?
Wreckage means something wrecked, especially the remains or debris of something which has been severely damaged or destroyed.
What is wreckage in Tamil?
Wreckage in Tamil is இடிபாடு, அழிபாடு, சிதைவுகள். See Wreckage meaning in Tamil.
How do you use wreckage in a sentence?
The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in.
What part of speech is wreckage?
Wreckage is a noun.
How do you pronounce wreckage?
Wreckage is pronounced /ˈɹɛkɪdʒ/.
What is the plural of wreckage?
The plural of wreckage is wreckages.

Words near wreckage in the dictionary

  1. wreck shop
  2. wreck the hoose juice
  3. wreck yard
  4. wreck yards
  5. wreckable
  6. wreckage
  7. wreckages
  8. wrecked
  9. wreckedness
  10. wrecker
  11. wrecker's ball

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wreckage (page history and authors); wreckage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wreckage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wreckage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wreckage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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