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Wreck vs Wrock - What's the difference?

wreck | wrock |

As nouns the difference between wreck and wrock

is that wreck is something or someone that has been ruined while wrock is a genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series.

As a verb wreck

is to destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

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

    wrock

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) A genre of music produced by fans of the , characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series.
  • * 2007 , Racheline Maltese, The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias & Particularities, Volume 1 , Sterling & Ross Publishers (2007), ISBN 9780977954520, page 175:
    • There are, at present, dozens of these “wizard rock” or “wrock ” bands, some of which tour nationally and internationally performing at small clubs, libraries and Harry Potter conferences and other special events.
  • * 2009 , Lev Grossman, " The Boy Who Rocked", Time , 20 July 2009:
    • Not all wrock is punk wrock. There's plenty of stylistic diversity in the scene, which ranges from the electric girl pop of the Parselmouths to the darkly gleaming hip-hop of Swish and Flick.
  • * 2011 , Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection , Ashgate (2011), ISBN 9780754679035, page 78:
    • The phenomenon of wrock (wizard rock) within Harry Potter fandom has not yet produced mainstream crossovers.

    Synonyms

    *wizard rock

    See also

    *filk

    External links

    *(Wizard rock)