wreck
/rek/ n [C]Definition
› a vehicle or ship that has been destroyed or badly damaged › A wreck can also be something that is badly in need of repair: We bought this old wreck of a house and fixed it up. › A person who is described as a wreck is in bad physical or mental condition: Coping with three kids and a mother in the hospital, she’s a nervous wreck.
(Definition of wreck n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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