Wreck vs Mess - What's the difference?
wreck | mess |
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
(obsolete) Mass; church service.
A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; also, the food given to an animal at one time.
* Milton
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table.
* 1610 , , IV. iv. 11:
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
(US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
(label) To take meals with a mess.
(label) To belong to a mess.
(label) To eat (with others).
(label) To supply with a mess.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
(label) A large quantity or number.
(label) Excrement.
(label) To make a mess of.
(label) To throw into confusion.
(label) To interfere.
As nouns the difference between wreck and mess
is that wreck is something or someone that has been ruined while mess is mass; church service.As verbs the difference between wreck and mess
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 mess is to take meals with a mess.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.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* build * construct * make * produceDerived terms
* bewreck * wrecker * wreckageReferences
mess
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), partly from (etyl) . More at (m); see also (m).Noun
(es)- A mess of pottage.
- At their savoury dinner set / Of herbs and other country messes .
- the wardroom mess
- But that our feasts / In every mess have folly, and the feeders / Digest it with accustom,
- (Latimer)
