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Wreck vs Worsened - What's the difference?

wreck | worsened |

As verbs the difference between wreck and worsened

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 worsened is past tense of worsen.

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

    worsened

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (worsen)

    • worsen

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make worse; to impair.
  • * The global warming has worsened the weather.
  • * Southey
    • It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened .
  • To become worse; to get worse.
  • * The weather has worsened .
  • (obsolete) To get the better of; to worst.

    • Synonyms

    * deteriorate

    Antonyms

    * improve * ameliorate

    Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs