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WRECKAGE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The remaining parts of something that has been wrecked

Example:

they searched the wreckage for signs of survivors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wreckage" is a kind of...):

part; portion (something less than the whole of a human artifact)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wreckage"):

flotsam; jetsam (the floating wreckage of a ship)

lagan; lagend; ligan (goods (or wreckage) on the sea bed that is attached to a buoy so that it can be recovered)

Derivation:

wreck (smash or break forcefully)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Something of his birthplace seemed to cling to the man, and I never looked at his pale, keen face or the poise of his head without associating him with grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The air was thick with flying wreckage, detached ropes and stays were hissing and coiling like snakes, and down through it all crashed the gaff of the foresail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)