To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. (Australia)
To wreck something means to completely destroy or ruin it. A coalition could have defeated the government and wrecked the treaty His life has been wrecked by the tragedy. missed promotions, lost jobs, wrecked marriages
To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck
{f} ruin, destroy; devastate; shatter (e.g. one's hopes); be destroyed; be sunken (e.g. of a ship)
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
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
If a ship is wrecked, it is damaged so much that it sinks or can no longer sail. The ship was wrecked by an explosion. a wrecked cargo ship