Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. t. & n.) See
Wreak.
2. (n.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
3. (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
4. (n.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
5. (n.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
6. (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
7. (v. t.) 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.
8. (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
9. (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
10. (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
11. (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.
Strong's Hebrew
4875. meshoah -- desolation... desolation, waste. Or mshoah {mesh-o-aw'}; from the same as show'; (a) ruin, abstractly
(the act) or concretely (the
wreck) -- desolation, waste.
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