wreck

n

1. wrack, mess, total ruin, ruin, havoc; pileup, accident, smash-up, crack-up, chain accident, collision; shipwreck, Naut. derelict; flotsam and jetsam, wreckage, debris, detritus, ruins, fragments, relics, pieces, remains.

2. destruction, devastation, desolation, ravagement, ruination; demolition, pulverization, razing, leveling, pulling down, tearing down; smashing, shattering, crashing, cracking; disintegration, deterioration, decay; quashing, quelling, stifling, suppression; shooting down, cutting short, nipping in the bud; annihilation, extermination, obliteration, cancellation, termination, end, downfall.

v

3. shipwreck, scuttle, run aground, run into the rocks, sink, capsize, founder.

4. devastate, demolish, desolate, ruin, destroy; smash, (of a car) Sl. total, knock to pieces, reduce to nothing, shatter, Inf. break into smithereens; blast, blow up, explode, dynamite, put the torch to; raze, tear down, pull down, knock down, dismantle, disassemble; vandalize, waste, Sl. trash; bulldoze, flatten, level, take the wrecker's ball to, gut.

5. quash, crush, subdue, quell, stifle, squelch, put down; defeat, upset, upset the applecart; annihilate, exterminate, eradicate, expunge, obliterate; blot out, erase, rub out, cancel, eliminate, do away with; mess up, Inf. rain on, play havoc with, spoil, Sl. screw up, Inf. make a hash of, botch, Sl. louse up, Sl. gum up the works, throw a monkey wrench into the works; kill, finish, extinguish, put out, snuff; liquidate, slay, get rid of, expel, throw out; terminate, conclude, finish, put an end to, bring to an end, end, write finis to.

6. collide, crash, smash up, crack up; go up in smoke, come to naught, end with a whimper, come to grief.