Thesaurus / wreck
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Even with its impressive rainy-day fund, its state budget is a wreck.
STATE BUDGETS ARE IN TATTERS. REPUBLICANS IN WASHINGTON SAY TOO BADPHILIP ELLIOTTFEBRUARY 4, 2021TIMERight now I’m much more casual about my hair being a wreck or whatever.
THE LOST YEAR: EXERCISE IN QUARANTINE, KEEPING A BUSINESS ALIVE, AND THE UNUSUAL INTIMACY OF ZOOMEMILY VANDERWERFFDECEMBER 31, 2020VOXThis one shows the percent of bottom-dwelling fish from each wreck that are roughly a certain length.
ANALYZE THIS: SHIPWRECKS PROVIDE A HOME FOR BOTTOM-DWELLING FISHCAROLYN WILKEDECEMBER 4, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSUltimately, the design promises to reduce the profound rotational forces that slam brain tissue into the skull during a wreck.
THE 100 GREATEST INNOVATIONS OF 2020POPULAR SCIENCE STAFFDECEMBER 2, 2020POPULAR-SCIENCEThe wreck occurred on the opening lap as drivers were making their first moves and Grosjean’s car made contact with Daniil Kyvat’s at the third turn of the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir.
ROMAIN GROSJEAN ESCAPES EXPLOSION, FIERY FORMULA ONE CRASH WITH MINOR INJURIESCINDY BORENNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIf you get in a car wreck, you’re just going to go fix your car and get in your car again the next day.
"COUGAR GUY" TELLS THE STORY BEHIND HIS VIRAL VIDEOLUKE WHELANOCTOBER 16, 2020OUTSIDE ONLINEShe saw in the chair a thin, broken figure, a drawn brown face, a wreck of a man.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDAn old horse, with traces hanging and harness a wreck, stands snorting beside the boy.
A LOST HEROELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD AND HERBERT D. WARDThe gale still lasted, and the steamer was in momentary danger of becoming a complete wreck.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSIn passing round Cape Flinders, there appeared to be a considerable diminution in the remains of the Frederick's wreck.
NARRATIVE OF A SURVEY OF THE INTERTROPICAL AND WESTERN COASTS OF AUSTRALIA] [VOLUME 2 OF 2]PHILLIP PARKER KINGWORDS RELATED TO WRECK
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- default
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- delinquency
- dereliction
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- neglect
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- omission
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- washout
- wreck
- bewilders
- blows out of the water
- bowls over
- confounds
- confuses
- demoralizes
- destroys
- disturbs
- does in
- downgrades
- drowns
- dumbfounds
- floors
- kills
- overcomes
- overpowers
- prostrates
- puzzles
- renders speechless
- runs circles around
- shatters
- shocks
- staggers
- steamrollers
- stuns
- subordinates
- surprises
- swamps
- upsets
- wrecks
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