wreckage
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈrɛkɪdʒ/
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restos
- You always moved in a landscape of death, wreckage, cinders, and snow.
- part of the wreckage
- wreckage from the ship
- pile up wreckage
One could argue that the our ability to find the diamond in the wreckage is a gift.
- One could argue that the our ability to find the diamond in the wreckage is a gift.
- It made money, but nobody knew because it got buried in the wreckage of the bankruptcy of United Artists.
- And we would, we will be looking for bigger pieces, perhaps even the wreckage of the core of the object that collided with Earth.
- And then the next day they came in to recover the wreckage, I guess for parts or something, and they found a number of us still alive.
- And even when it is not our parent, we are like people sifting through the wreckage of a burned down building.
- They're like magnificent works of art for wreckage, and they have been storing ILM stuff for decades.
- For this reason, communism comes to power in a place that Marx probably wouldn't have expected in the wreckage wreckage of the Russian Empire.
- And it is that process of just like, oh man, all the wreckage from my past is here and you kind of have to sift through it.
- Have we come across any wreckage of any kind of object that has now been examined by you?
Examples
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A police helicopter flies over the burning wreckage of the fuel truck.
Fiction book (1991) -
Emergency crews spent hours sifting through the wreckage hoping to recover any survivors from this tragic collision.
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I flew over the wreckage and then came home with a heavy heart.
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One could argue that the our ability to find the diamond in the wreckage is a gift.
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The next thing you know, space is empty: only wreckage and silence are left.
Fiction book (1992) -
They helped pull survivors out of the wreckage.
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David and Les survey the wreckage of the riot: broken sticks, newspapers, hats.
Fiction book (1992) -
But the water still snaked its way through the wreckage, downhill toward the riverbed.
Fiction book (1993) -
The buzzing TIE fighters were gone, leaving nothing but bits of wreckage strewn across the landscape.
Fiction book (1991) -
Emergency crews spent hours sifting through the wreckage hoping to recover any survivors from this tragic collision.
Synonyms
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4.1
Scattered broken pieces left after something is destroyed
147
3.1
The remains of a building left after it is destroyed
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3.2
Broken pieces of stone or brick left after a building is destroyed
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3.6
Things left after the rest is used, eaten, or taken away
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8.2
Loose bits of waste and broken things left after damage or natural events
Antonyms
How Destroyed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word wreckage comes from wreck + -age, with wreck once meaning a ship 'driven onto rocks' and smashed, as in a 'shipwreck'. So, wreckage is the parts left after something has been badly damaged.