hulk

Examples

• All

• Rather than spend the war in a French prison hulk in Hudson Bay, they'd fight to the end.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The tug is dwarfed by the massive rusting hulk of the Chimera rising above it.

  Fiction book (2002)

• They were doing target runs on an old hulk.

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

• Crouching, they ran to the abandoned hulk, where they stood in the shadows.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Further down 17th Street, smoke was rising from the hulk of the Corcoran Museum, recently torched.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The poor, lifeless hulk.

  Young Frankenstein (1974)

• The hero, treading the steel decks of a supposedly abandoned hulk, heard echoes.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Cluttered here and there, carelessly flung about, are the rusting hulks of several ships.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The cities would corrode and crumble, great mournful hulks, the final monuments to medievalism.

  Fiction book (1992)

• The old shipwreck on the beach had become a rusting hulk, slowly being reclaimed by the sea.

Synonyms

W

wreck

vshulk

52 2.8

A ship broken or sunk at sea

focuses on being left abandoned and often left to decay or be repurposed

S

shipwreck

vshulk

19 4.6

A ship that is destroyed or badly damaged at sea

is similar but emphasizes abandonment and possible reuse rather than the event

A

abandoned ship

vshulk

5 6.3

A ship left by its crew and owners, often drifting at sea

is specifically damaged and abandoned, often kept to decay or for other use

D

derelict

vshulk

• Specialized

1 9.1

An abandoned ship that drifts without a crew

is a damaged vessel abandoned and sometimes left to decay or reuse

Idioms

B

built like a hulk

• Informal

6.3

A person who has very large muscles and a strong body

Compounds

H

hulk of a man

1 5.2

A very large man who is strong

How Ruined

wreck

52 2.8

hulk

• Archaic

18 7.7

derelict

• Specialized

1 9.1

ship

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology