1. 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.
Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
Shak.
2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as
a railroad train.
3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of
success, and bring disaster on.
Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves.
Daniel.
Wreck, v. i. 1. To suffer wreck or ruin. Milton.
2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in
plundering.
Wreck"age (?; 48), n. 1. The act of wrecking, or state of being
wrecked.