Wrecked

ppl. a. [f. WRECK v.¹ + -ED¹.]

  1.  That has undergone or suffered shipwreck; destroyed, lost or cast ashore by shipwreck; = SHIPWRECKED ppl. a.

1729.  Woodward, Fossils, I. 116. The Coral found affix’d and growing upon wreck’d Ships.

1795.  W. Lee, Hist. Lewes, 547. It has … been the practice of many lords to keep the wrecked goods.

1818.  Shelley, Rosal. & Helen, 394. Wrecked mariners, Who cling to the rock of a wintry sea.

1821.  Scott, Pirate, vii. One wave … made the wrecked vessel completely manifest in her whole bulk.

1850.  W. Irving, Mahomet, II. 483. Whether the old man … was one of the wrecked cruisers, or a wrecker,… is not specified.

1869.  Daily News, 11 Aug. Throwing upon the holders of wrecked goods the burden of accounting for their possession.

  2.  Damaged or destroyed by wreck, violence or disaster; shattered, ruined.

1818.  Shelley, Julian, 224. Like weeds on a wrecked palace growing. Ibid. (1818), Marenghi, vii. Thou shadowest forth that mighty shape in story, As ocean its wrecked fanes, severe yet tender.

1867.  Smiles, Huguenots Eng., ix. (1880), 150. Amidst the ruins of a wrecked church.

1875.  Knight, Dict. Mech., 2821/1. Removing obstructions from the track, such as wrecked cars or locomotives.

  b.  fig. That has suffered wreck; brought to ruin or disaster.

1819.  Keats, Lines to Fanny, 33. That most hateful land, [where] … my friends … live a wrecked life.

1855.  G. Brimley, Ess. (1858), 84. The incipient stage of madness, springing from the wrecked affections.

1879.  Froude, Cæsar, xviii. 301. He flung into bribery what was left of his wrecked credit.

1901.  Munsey’s Mag., XXIV. 470/2. He was thinking of the old king with the wrecked mind.