Wreck vs Thwart - What's the difference?
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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
To prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.
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* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(nautical) A brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.
(nautical) A seat across a boat on which a rower may sit.
Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.
* Milton
(figurative) Perverse; crossgrained.
Obliquely; transversely; athwart.
Wreck is a related term of thwart.
As nouns the difference between wreck and thwart
is that wreck is something or someone that has been ruined while thwart is (nautical) a brace, perpendicular to the keel, that helps maintain the beam (breadth) of a marine vessel against external water pressure and that may serve to support the rail.As verbs the difference between wreck and thwart
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 thwart is to prevent; to halt; to cause to fail; to foil; to frustrate.As an adjective thwart is
situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.As an adverb thwart is
obliquely; transversely; athwart.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
thwart
English
Verb
(en verb)- The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
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Arsenal 1-0 Everton, passage=Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.}}
- Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.
Synonyms
* See also * foil, frustrate, impede, spoilDerived terms
* athwart * athwartships * thwarter * thwartsomeNoun
(en noun)- A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart .
- The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
- (Shakespeare)
Adverb
(-)- (Milton)