| Main Entry: | wreck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
Synonyms: |
bash, batter, beach, break, capsize, crack up, crash, cripple, dash, decimate, demolish, devastate, dilapidate, disable, do in, efface, founder, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mess up*, pile up, put out of commission, ravage, raze, run aground, sabotage, scuttle, shatter, shipwreck, sink, smash, smash up, spoil, strand, subvert, take apart, take out, tear up, torpedo, total*, trash*, undermine, vandalize, wrack up, wrack |
| Notes: | wreak means to cause something, especially trouble; wreck means to destroy something |
Antonyms: |
build, create, repair |
| Main Entry: | wrecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destroyed |
Synonyms: |
broken, demolished, dismantled, junked, ruined, shattered, smashed |
Antonyms: |
fixed, rebuilt, repaired |
| Main Entry: | wrecked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intoxicated |
Synonyms: |
bashed, buzzed, crocked, drunk, high*, inebriated, juiced, lit, plastered, sloshed, stewed, stoned, tanked, tipsy, totaled, wasted |
Antonyms: |
clear-headed, sober, straight, temperate |
| Main Entry: | aground |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | on the bottom of |
Synonyms: |
ashore, beached, disabled, foundered, grounded, high and dry, marooned, reefed, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, swamped, wrecked |
Antonyms: |
afloat |
| Main Entry: | annihilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy completely |
Synonyms: |
abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, blot out, crush*, decimate, demolish, do in, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish off, invalidate, liquidate, massacre, murder, negate, nullify, obliterate, quash, quell, raze, root out, rub out, ruin, slaughter, take out*, undo, vitiate, wipe out, wrack, wreck |
Antonyms: |
help, preserve, revive, save |
| Main Entry: | batter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | strike and damage |
Synonyms: |
assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, contuse, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy, disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck |
| Main Entry: | beached |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grounded |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, aground, ashore, deserted, high and dry, marooned, stranded, wrecked |
Antonyms: |
at sea |
| Main Entry: | blast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explode |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, blight, blow up, bomb, break up, burst, damage, dash, demolish, destroy, detonate, dynamite, injure, kill, ruin, shatter, shrivel, spoil, stunt, torpedo, wither, wreck |
| Main Entry: | blight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ruin, destroy |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, blast, crush, damage, dash, decay, disappoint, foul up, frustrate, glitch up, injure, mar, mess up*, nip in the bud, nullify, shrivel, spoil, taint, trash*, wither, wreck |
Antonyms: |
aid, bless, guard, help, prosper, protect |
| Main Entry: | botch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blunder |
Synonyms: |
blow*, bobble, boggle, bollix, boot, bumble, bungle, butcher, distort, err, fall down, flounder, flub, fumble, goof up, gum up, louse up, mar, mend, mess, mess up*, misapply, miscalculate, miscompute, misconjecture, misconstrue, mishandle, misjudge, mismanage, muck up, muddle, muff, mutilate, patch, pull a boner, ruin, screw up, spoil, stumble, wreck |
Antonyms: |
accomplish, achieve, do well, succeed |