wreckage
[
rek
-ij]
/ˈrɛk ɪdʒ/
noun
1.
act of
wrecking
; state of being
wrecked
.
2.
remains or fragments of something that has been
wrecked
:
They searched the wreckage for survivors.
Origin
1830-40;
wreck
+
-age
Examples from the web for
wreckage
He must avoid both under penalty of
wreckage
, and it avails him nothing to have avoided one, if he founders on the other.
We often cope with fear and pain and emotional
wreckage
through laughter.
From the
wreckage
of that failed flight came a successful crossing.
Hundreds of bodies have been pulled from the
wreckage
, and thousands remain missing.
Take a virtual tour of the ship's sunken
wreckage
and explore artifacts on the seafloor.
If a hurricane is a chaotic system, then the
wreckage
strewn in its path is its fractal pattern.
Guzman was blown clear and landed in the dirt behind the
wreckage
.
No reporters had been allowed in to see the
wreckage
.
The space was enormous, the ground covered in white dust from the
wreckage
.
The economic landscape is unquestionably littered with the
wreckage
of the crash.
British Dictionary definitions for
wreckage
wreckage
/
ˈrɛkɪdʒ
/
noun
1.
same as
wreck
(sense 6)
2.
the act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked; ruin or destruction
Word Origin and History for
wreckage
n.
1837, from
wreck
+
-age
.