wreck |
تباہی ۔ بربادی ۔ جھاز کی تباہی ، کھنڈر ۔ |
(1) - Wreck (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. (2) - Wreck (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin. (3) - Wreck (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. (4) - Wreck (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. (5) - Wreck (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. (6) - Wreck (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. (7) - Wreck (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. (8) - Wreck (v. t.) 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. (9) - Wreck (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. (10) - Wreck (v. t.) 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. (11) - Wreck (v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak. |
wrecker |
تباہ شدہ سامان تلاش کرنے والا ۔ برباد کرنے والا ۔ |
(1) - Wrecker (n.) A vessel employed by wreckers. (2) - Wrecker (n.) One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West. (3) - Wrecker (n.) One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. |