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Wreck vs Deconstruct - What's the difference?

wreck | deconstruct |

As verbs the difference between wreck and deconstruct

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 deconstruct is to break something down into its component parts.

As a noun wreck

is something or someone that has been ruined.

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

    deconstruct

    English

    (Deconstruction)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To break something down into its component parts.
  • (label) To analyse in terms of deconstruction (a philosophical theory of textual criticism).
  • (label) To analyse (generally).
  • (label) To critique (generally).
  • To destroy.
  • * 2014 , Ian Levy, 2014 Jun 16, The Spurs’ Deconstruction of the Heat Is Now Complete

    • Usage notes

    Narrowly used as a specific kind of literary analysis and criticism; broadly used as a fancy term to mean analysis, criticism, destruction, etc.

    Derived terms

    * deconstructable * deconstructive * deconstructively

    Related terms

    * deconstruction

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