Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t. & n.) See Wreak. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. 4. (n.) 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. 5. (n.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. 6. (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. 7. (v. t.) 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. 8. (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. 9. (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. 10. (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin. 11. (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

Multi-Version Concordance Wreck (1 Occurrence) Luke 6:49 But he who has heard and not practised is like a man who has built a house upon the soft soil without a foundation, against which the torrent bursts, and immediately it collapses, and terrible is the wreck and ruin of that house." (WEY)