| wreck |
verb t. & noun |
See 2d & 3d Wreak., The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck., Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train., The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck., The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured., Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea., To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck., To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train., To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on., To suffer wreck or ruin., To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. |
| wrest |
verb t. |
To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting., To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort., To tune with a wrest, or key., The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent twist; hence, distortion; perversion., Active or moving power., A key to tune a stringed instrument of music., A partition in a water wheel, by which the form of the buckets is determined. |