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WRECK

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Traducere în limba română

wreck I. substantiv

1. accident, avarie; naufragiu. epavă (a unui vas).

3. (fig.) ruină, epavă; ratat;

what a wreck of his former self he is! ce epavă a ajuns!

wreck II. verb A.tranzitiv

1. a sfărâma, a sparge.

2. (fig.) a ruina, a rata.

wreck II. verb B. intr. (rar)

1. a suferi o avarie.

2. (despre planuri sau speranţe) a se prăbuşi, a eşua.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

A wreck! Close by! I sprung out of bed, and asked, what wreck?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Maybe it's in that wind out over the sea that's bringin' with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

But there was something I wished to say—let me see—The wandering look and changed utterance told what wreck had taken place in her once vigorous frame.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Another cry arose on shore; and looking to the wreck, we saw the cruel sail, with blow on blow, beat off the lower of the two men, and fly up in triumph round the active figure left alone upon the mast.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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