Wreckage
noun
The parts that remain after something has been badly damaged or destroyed.
Emergency services are still searching through the wreckage of the plane crash.
Often appears as...
- plane wreckage
- search through the wreckage
noun
The destruction or breakdown of something.
After the market crash, many businesses were left in wreckage.
Often appears as...
- emotional wreckage
- financial wreckage
Usage tips
Disapproving
noun
The parts that remain after something has been badly damaged or destroyed.
Emergency services are still searching through the wreckage of the plane crash.
Often appears as...
- plane wreckage
- search through the wreckage
noun
The destruction or breakdown of something.
After the market crash, many businesses were left in wreckage.
Often appears as...
- emotional wreckage
- financial wreckage
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Remains
Refers to leftover parts of something tangible that's been destroyed.
Firefighters sifted through the wreckage for any survivors.
Pro Tip 2/3After Disasters
Commonly used to describe remains after events like crashes, collapses, or natural disasters.
The earthquake left a trail of wreckage across the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can be used metaphorically to describe the aftermath of a very negative situation.
He was left sorting through the wreckage of his failed investments.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Remains
Refers to leftover parts of something tangible that's been destroyed.
Firefighters sifted through the wreckage for any survivors.
Pro Tip 2/3After Disasters
Commonly used to describe remains after events like crashes, collapses, or natural disasters.
The earthquake left a trail of wreckage across the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can be used metaphorically to describe the aftermath of a very negative situation.
He was left sorting through the wreckage of his failed investments.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Remains
Refers to leftover parts of something tangible that's been destroyed.
Firefighters sifted through the wreckage for any survivors.
Pro Tip 2/3After Disasters
Commonly used to describe remains after events like crashes, collapses, or natural disasters.
The earthquake left a trail of wreckage across the city.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Literal
Can be used metaphorically to describe the aftermath of a very negative situation.
He was left sorting through the wreckage of his failed investments.
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Video examples
Feats of memory anyone...
the sole survivor amid the wreckage, closes his eyes and has this realization, which is that in his mind's eye, he can see where each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting. And he takes the relatives by the hand, and guides them each to their loved ones amid the wreckage.
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Daniel Suarez: The kill...
Cyber espionage is spiriting away advanced designs to parts unknown, and in that environment, it is very likely that a successful drone design will be knocked off in contract factories, proliferate in the gray market. And in that situation, sifting through the wreckage
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What You Can Do to...
You've forgotten me forever. But what if you had learned more about me? Let's say you learned four things about me. Now imagine you have Alzheimer's, and three of those synapses are damaged or destroyed. You still have a way to detour the wreckage.
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What coronavirus means...
how bad is it, how worried should we be? Well, I think you could look at this like a tsunami that's hit -- the virus itself and the social distancing. And then what are the consequences in terms of the wreckage, when you look at it?
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In search for the man...
and so God had ordained the crash, but now, he said, he was religious, and God was pleased. It was then that God news on the TV of a car wreck that hours before had killed three people up north. We looked up at the wreckage.
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The voices in my head PIPE...
I'd been diagnosed, drugged and discarded, and was by now so tormented by the voices that I attempted to drill a hole in my head in order to get them out. Now looking back on the wreckage and despair of those years,
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Feats of memory anyone...
realization which is that in his mind's eye he can see each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting and he takes the relatives by the hand and guides them each to their loved ones amid the wreckage what
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The doctors, nurses and...
once a conflict is over to help them heal. Local humanitarians have the courage to persist, to dust themselves off from the wreckage and to start again, risking their lives to save others.
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These Divers Search For...
for and around the ship creates deep connections I do recall very as think to blame when I first encountered the wreckage of the South Susanna being in the water for me
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Carne Ross: An...
idealism in all of that wreckage. And perhaps also, there's a lesson about how to deal with our screwed-up, fragmenting and dangerous world of the 21st century.
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Feats of memory anyone...
the sole survivor amid the wreckage, closes his eyes and has this realization, which is that in his mind's eye, he can see where each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting. And he takes the relatives by the hand, and guides them each to their loved ones amid the wreckage.
Video examples
Daniel Suarez: The kill...
Cyber espionage is spiriting away advanced designs to parts unknown, and in that environment, it is very likely that a successful drone design will be knocked off in contract factories, proliferate in the gray market. And in that situation, sifting through the wreckage
Video examples
What You Can Do to...
You've forgotten me forever. But what if you had learned more about me? Let's say you learned four things about me. Now imagine you have Alzheimer's, and three of those synapses are damaged or destroyed. You still have a way to detour the wreckage.
Video examples
What coronavirus means...
how bad is it, how worried should we be? Well, I think you could look at this like a tsunami that's hit -- the virus itself and the social distancing. And then what are the consequences in terms of the wreckage, when you look at it?
Video examples
In search for the man...
and so God had ordained the crash, but now, he said, he was religious, and God was pleased. It was then that God news on the TV of a car wreck that hours before had killed three people up north. We looked up at the wreckage.
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
I'd been diagnosed, drugged and discarded, and was by now so tormented by the voices that I attempted to drill a hole in my head in order to get them out. Now looking back on the wreckage and despair of those years,
Video examples
Feats of memory anyone...
realization which is that in his mind's eye he can see each of the guests at the banquet had been sitting and he takes the relatives by the hand and guides them each to their loved ones amid the wreckage what
Video examples
The doctors, nurses and...
once a conflict is over to help them heal. Local humanitarians have the courage to persist, to dust themselves off from the wreckage and to start again, risking their lives to save others.
Video examples
These Divers Search For...
for and around the ship creates deep connections I do recall very as think to blame when I first encountered the wreckage of the South Susanna being in the water for me
Video examples
Carne Ross: An...
idealism in all of that wreckage. And perhaps also, there's a lesson about how to deal with our screwed-up, fragmenting and dangerous world of the 21st century.
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Quote examples
Terry Pratchett
English Author
I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.
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Philip Hammond
British Politician
Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.
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David Ignatius
American Journalist
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
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Jane Velez-Mitchell
American Journalist
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Molly Bloom
American Author
Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.
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Margaret Mitchell
American Novelist
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
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Aisha Tyler
American Actress
When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
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Terry Pratchett
English Author
I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn't theirs.
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Philip Hammond
British Politician
Sound public finances are the essential foundation on which to construct a better-balanced economy from the wreckage of Labour's boom and bust. But it is economic growth that will create the jobs and the prosperity for the future and enable us to pay down Labour's debt.
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David Ignatius
American Journalist
When historians look at the Obama presidency, they're likely to credit him especially for doing the politically unpopular things that were needed in 2009 to salvage the financial wreckage.
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Jane Velez-Mitchell
American Journalist
Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?
Quote examples
Virginia Woolf
British Author
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
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Molly Bloom
American Author
Look at the things you've done and ask for forgiveness. After clearing out that wreckage from the past, you can move forward, in a way, to keep your finger on the pulse.
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Margaret Mitchell
American Novelist
What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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Nancy Gibbs
American Journalist
In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them.
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Aisha Tyler
American Actress
When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.
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