Fiasco vs Wreck - What's the difference?
fiasco | wreck |
A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.
Something or someone that has been ruined.
The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
* Cowper
An event in which something is damaged through collision.
* Addison
* Spenser
* J. R. Green
(legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
* Shakespeare
To ruin or dilapidate.
(Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
* Daniel
As nouns the difference between fiasco and wreck
is that fiasco is a ludicrous or humiliating situation some effort that went quite wrong while wreck is something or someone that has been ruined.As a verb wreck is
to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.fiasco
English
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (ludicrous or humiliating situation) (l)See also
* fiasci (hypercorrect plural) * fiaschiReferences
* Concise Oxford Dictionary, s. v. fiasco. *Compact Oxford English Dictionary on-line. *
The Word Detective, Issue of Oct 30, 2001. ----
wreck
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
- To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
- the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds
- Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck , both of herself and goods.
- Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
- (Bouvier)
Synonyms
* crash * ruinsDerived terms
* shipwreckVerb
(en verb)- He wrecked the car in a collision.
- That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
- Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .
- Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.