WRECKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrecked mean? 

• WRECKED (adjective)
  The adjective WRECKED has 1 sense:

1. destroyed in an accident

  Familiarity information: WRECKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRECKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroyed in an accident

Context example:

a highway full of wrecked cars

Similar:

destroyed (spoiled or ruined or demolished)

 Context examples 

I was a happy and successful man, Mr. Holmes, and on the eve of being married, when a sudden and dreadful misfortune wrecked all my prospects in life.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was at the fishing up of the wrecked plate ships.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Had life been wrecked as well as property?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I struggled to my feet, with difficulty dragging myself clear of the wrecked door, unaware of any hurt whatever.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Martha Endell—side by side with whom, he would not have seen his dear niece, Ham had told me, for all the treasures wrecked in the sea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But were he wrecked, the living water would engulf him, helpless; and he would indeed be lost.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Strange and harrowing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it—thus!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He likened himself to a poet, wrecked on the shores of a strange land, filled with power of beauty, stumbling and stammering and vainly trying to sing in the rough, barbaric tongue of his brethren in the new land.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Utterson was amazed; the dark influence of Hyde had been withdrawn, the doctor had returned to his old tasks and amities; a week ago, the prospect had smiled with every promise of a cheerful and an honoured age; and now in a moment, friendship, and peace of mind, and the whole tenor of his life were wrecked.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If we are wrecked, mayhap this bottle may be found, and those who find it may understand; if not, ... well, then all men shall know that I have been true to my trust.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)