Terms vs Wreckest - What's the difference?
terms | wreckest |
(archaic) (wreck)
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 a noun terms
is .As a verb wreckest is
(archaic) (wreck).wreckest
English
Verb
(head)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.