Wreck: Definition and part of speech

Wreck

  1. v. t. Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
  2. v. t. & n. See 2d & 3d Wreak.
  3. v. t. 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.
  4. v. t. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
  5. v. t. 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.
  6. v. t. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wreathe: Definition and part of speech

Wreathe

  1. v. i. To be intewoven or entwined; to twine together; as, a bower of wreathing trees.
  2. n. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
  3. n. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine.
  4. n. To surround with anything twisted or convolved; to encircle; to infold.
  5. n. To twine or twist about; to surround; to encircle.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.