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Wreck vs Blunder - What's the difference?

wreck | blunder |

As nouns the difference between wreck and blunder

is that wreck is something or someone that has been ruined while blunder is a clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

As verbs the difference between wreck and blunder

is that wreck is to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless while blunder is to make a clumsy or stupid mistake.

wreck

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something or someone that has been ruined.
    • He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.
  • The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
  • * Cowper
    • To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.
  • An event in which something is damaged through collision.
  • * Addison
    • the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds
  • * Spenser
    • 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.
  • * J. R. Green
    • Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.
  • (legal) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.
    • (Bouvier)

    Synonyms

    * crash * ruins

    Derived terms

    * shipwreck

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.
    • He wrecked the car in a collision.
    That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!
  • * Shakespeare
    • Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked .
  • 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
    • Weak and envied, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * build * construct * make * produce

    Derived terms

    * bewreck * wrecker * wreckage

    References

    blunder

    English

    (wikipedia blunder)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

    • Synonyms

    * (error) blooper, boo-boo, error, faux pas, fluff, flub, fumble, gaffe, goof, lapse, mistake, slip, stumble, thinko

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a clumsy or stupid mistake.
    • to blunder in preparing a medical prescription
  • To move blindly or clumsily.
  • * Goldsmith
    • I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow.
  • * Dryden
    • blunders on, and staggers every pace
  • To cause to make a mistake.
  • * Ditton
    • To blunder an adversary.
  • To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.
  • * Stillingfleet
    • He blunders and confounds all these together.

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