wreckage
noun /ˈrekɪdʒ/
/ˈrekɪdʒ/
[uncountable]- 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?
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryc2- A search is going on for wreckage from the blazing aircraft.
- Another body has been recovered from the wreckage.
- Bodies lay among the tangled wreckage.
- He had to be cut from the wreckage by firemen.
- He surveyed the wreckage of his expensive equipment.
- Her body was discovered in the wreckage.
- It took workers several minutes to free him from the wreckage.
- Pieces of wreckage have been found up to three miles away.
- Police are searching the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident.
- Several people are still trapped in the wreckage.
- The crash left wreckage spread over a wide area.
- The remains of an explosive device were found among the wreckage.
- The runway is still strewn with wreckage.
- The wreckage has now been cleared from the motorway.
- Wreckage has been sighted fifteen miles north of the island.
- the human wreckage of the battlefield
- An elderly man was cut from the wreckage by firefighters.
- She tried to salvage whatever she could from the wreckage of her dreams.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- mangled
- tangled
- twisted
- …
- bit
- piece
- pile
- …
- scatter
- spread
- be strewn with
- …
- be strewn
- amidst the wreckage
- among the wreckage
- in the wreckage
- …