Synonyms of wrecked

wrecked 1 of 2

adjective

as in destroyed

Related Words

• destroyed
• ruined
• demolished
• devastated
• damaged
• pulverized
• collapsed
• mutilated
• mangled
• disintegrated
• cracked
• imploded
• splintered
• split
• exploded
• ruinate
• obliterated
• dynamited
• blasted
• defaced
• wiped out
• broken
• extirpated
• smashed
• shattered
• fragile
• fractured
• busted
• fragmented
• eradicated
• exterminated
• detonated
• brittle
• slivered
• breakable
• frail
• frangible
• delicate

Dissimilar Words

• repaired
• unbroken
• fixed
• reconstructed
• healed
• mended
• patched
• rebuilt
• unbreakable
• infrangible

wrecked

2 of 2

verb

past tense of wreck

1

as in stranded

to cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking

many an unwary captain has wrecked his ship on the shoals that surround the island

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stranded
• scuttled
• shipwrecked
• foundered
• beached

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• recovered
• salvaged

2

as in ruined

to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of

most of the furniture on the ground floor was wrecked by the floodwaters

Synonyms & Similar Words

• destroyed
• ruined
• shattered
• demolished
• devastated
• smashed
• damaged
• wasted
• overcame
• ravaged
• eroded
• marred
• decimated
• annihilated
• pulverized
• crippled
• wracked
• totaled
• desolated
• extinguished
• vaporized
• razed
• dismantled
• killed
• crushed
• creamed
• blasted
• pulled down
• defeated
• tore down
• rubbed out
• broke
• injured
• nuked
• removed
• did in
• disintegrated
• impaired
• subdued
• conquered
• mangled
• deteriorated
• mutilated
• disfigured
• harmed
• thrashed
• licked
• spoiled
• clobbered
• whipped
• dynamited
• trimmed
• defaced
• mastered
• obliterated
• dissolved
• routed
• gutted
• swept (away)
• overmatched
• trounced
• surmounted
• scotched
• won (against)
• plundered
• prevailed (over)
• dilapidated
• triumphed (over)
• wore (away)
• vandalized
• bested
• looted
• disassembled
• eradicated
• scoured
• vitiated
• washed out
• trashed
• murdered
• slaughtered
• assassinated
• sacked
• blew up
• despoiled
• pillaged
• wiped out
• beat
• trampled
• exterminated
• liquidated
• drubbed
• walloped
• expunged
• extirpated
• took down
• stamped (out)
• massacred
• butchered
• executed
• dispatched
• undid
• blotted out
• cut down
• skunked
• effaced
• rooted (out)
• zapped
• felled
• snuffed (out)
• killed off
• unmade
• overbore
• slew
• took out
• unbuilt
• havocked
• mowed (down)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• built
• constructed
• erected
• repaired
• set up
• raised
• created
• reared
• fixed
• put up
• produced
• made
• invented
• manufactured
• formed
• assembled
• shaped
• established
• organized
• forged
• fashioned
• molded
• patched
• framed
• founded
• reconditioned
• fabricated
• mended
• revamped
• brought about
• saved
• constituted
• protected
• preserved
• instituted
• doctored
• rebuilt
• restored
• reconstructed
• fathered
• conserved
• remodeled
• renovated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wrecked

Adjective

Jury sees wrecked boat, crash re-enactment On the fourth day of trial, the jury hopped into a black Dodge van escorted by Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026

Antunez got out of the wrecked vehicle and tried to flee on foot but was arrested by an OHA officer. — Harry Harris, Mercury News, 16 June 2026

But another, much younger linden next to the Dean House could claim the legacy of its wrecked sibling. — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026

The officer pulled his weapon and ordered him to stay in the wrecked car. — Michael Abeyta, CBS News, 6 June 2026

For days, no one connected the wrecked car to Marcus. — Edie Peffley, NBC news, 19 May 2026

The three adults on board — pilot Hernán Murcia, Indigenous leader Herman Mendoza Hernández and Magdalena — were found dead when Colombian soldiers located the wrecked plane two weeks after the crash. — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026

In recent days, refugees have begun returning to wrecked villages and towns. — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026

The firefighters took three injured people out of the wrecked car. — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2026

Verb

The vessel eventually wrecked on a reef in the Florida Keys in 1827, drowning 41 people. — Amara Evering, Miami Herald, 11 July 2026

Flash flooding in southeastern Missouri wrecked a campground and carried away about a dozen people, according to local authorities. — Michael Loria, USA Today, 10 July 2026

Perrineau is weary, if not quite as wrecked as the car sticking halfway out of the far wall. — Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026

In the history of mankind, socialist success stories are as rare as triple plays in baseball, but plenty of countries have been wrecked by it — Venezuela and Cuba, to name just two. — Michael Zais, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026

My polishing pads are always getting wrecked, used, or stolen by my dog (or all of those things). — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 24 June 2026

Just across the Mississippi River in Avondale, Louisiana, a tornado wrecked four homes, Jefferson Parish spokeswoman Rachel Strassel said. — CBS News, 19 June 2026

Jane Ragsdale’s best friend Christine Chenoweth, a pastoral counselor and former Presbyterian minister, says the South Fork of the Guadalupe is now lousy and wrecked and haunted. — Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

Guerrero Flores returned to the prison in Aragua on murder and other convictions in 2013, when Venezuela’s crisis began and corruption, mismanagement and a drop in crude prices wrecked the oil-dependent economy. — Will Weissert, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2026