Worse vs Wreck - What's the difference?
worse | wreck |
(bad)
More ill.
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Less skillfully.
More severely or seriously.
(sentence adverb) Used to start a sentence describing something that is worse.
(obsolete) To make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit.
* (rfdate) Milton.
(obsolete) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
* Bible, Kings xiv. 12
That which is worse; something less good.
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 verbs the difference between worse and wreck
is that worse is to make worse; to put at disadvantage; to discomfit while wreck is to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.As nouns the difference between worse and wreck
is that worse is loss; disadvantage; defeat while wreck is something or someone that has been ruined.As an adjective worse
is comparative of bad.As an adverb worse
is comparative of badly pos=adverb.worse
English
Adjective
(head)- Your exam results are worse than before.
- The harder you try, the worse you do.
- She was very ill last week but this week she’s worse .
Derived terms
* go from bad to worse * worse for wearAdverb
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Verb
(wors)- Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
Statistics
*Noun
- Judah was put to the worse before Israel.
- Do not think the worse of him for his enterprise.
Anagrams
*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.