Phrase Hound found 19 phrases and 29 compound words that contain wreck. The most common are listed below. Open wreck in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 19
- train wreckA train crash.
- wreck yardThe location of a dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, for the recovery of reusable parts and scrap metal.
- car wreckSynonym of car crash: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see car, crash.
- nervous wreckA very stressed and anxious person.
- nerve-wreckAlternative form of nerve rack: A state of extreme emotional distress from a nerve-racking experience.
- wreck grabA device designed to lift salvage from a shipwreck.
- wreck shopTo "go to town", to do something with vigor, very enthusiastically.
- catch wreckTo gain respect.
- catches wreckthird-person singular simple present indicative of catch wreck: To gain respect.
- catching wreckpresent participle and gerund of catch wreck
- caught wrecksimple past and past participle of catch wreck
- wreck carSynonym of wrecking car: A railway car fitted with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck resulting from an accident.
- wreck carsplural of wreck car: A railway car fitted with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck resulting from an accident.
- wreck yardsplural of wreck yard: The location of a dismantling business where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, for the recovery of reusable parts and scrap metal.
- wreck grabsplural of wreck grab: A device designed to lift salvage from a shipwreck.
- wreck havocMisspelling of wreak havoc: To cause damage, disruption, or destruction.
- wreck the hoose juiceBuckfast Tonic Wine, a brand of fortified wine.
- check yourself before you wreck yourselfConsider the consequences of your actions before you end up in trouble.
- wreck of the HesperusUsed in similes to describe the appearance of an untidy or bedraggled person.
Compound words 29
- wrecklessWithout causing or suffering a wreck.
- wreckfishAny of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.
- wreckreationRecreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in …
- WreckhouseA region of southwestern Newfoundland, Canada, known for extremely high winds.
- wreckishLike or resembling a wreck
- wrecksomeMarked by a wreck or wreckage; resembling something that has been wrecked; banged up
- homewreckTo cheat while one is already married, thus causing the dissolution of the marriage.
- unwreckTo undo or reverse the wrecking of; (by extension) to repair; restore to good use; salvage
- wreckfulCausing wreckage; ruinous.
- bewreckTo wreck completely; ruin; destroy.