[U] the parts of a vehicle, building, etc. that remain after it has been badly damaged or destroyed:
A few survivors were pulled from the wreckage. * Pieces of wreckage were found ten miles away from the scene of the explosion. * (figurative) Could nothing be rescued from the wreckage of her dreams?
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for wreckage is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wreckage a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wreckage is tagged as noun.
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