wrecked

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of wreck.

   Years of neglect had wrecked the old mansion on the hill.

   A late penalty wrecked the team's hopes of reaching the final.

   Note

   Wreck is regular, so wrecked serves as the simple past (the storm wrecked the pier) and as the past participle (the pier was wrecked). In Australia it can also report salvage: a car wrecked for parts has been taken apart so its useful pieces can be sold. An obsolete use meant plundering goods from wrecked ships.

2. 2
   adjective

   Destroyed, usually in an accident, or damaged so badly that it can no longer be used.

   Wrecked cars lined the shoulder after the pileup on the interstate.

   The wrecked ferry lay on its side in the harbor for months.

   Similardestroyed, smashed, ruined

   Oppositeintact

3. 3
   adjectiveslang

   Extremely drunk, or heavily under the influence of recreational drugs.

   By midnight half the wedding guests were wrecked on cheap champagne.

   He was so wrecked after the festival that he slept through the whole next day.

   Similarwasted, smashed, hammered, drunk

   Oppositesober

   Note

   This is slang for casual talk among friends, out of place in formal writing. It usually follows be, often with completely or totally in front, and the cause follows from or on: in Barbara Copperthwaite's The Girl in the Missing Poster (2021), a young woman seems wrecked from all the Diamond White ciders she'd been sinking.

4. 4
   adjective

   Put in a dreadful or embarrassing position, as by being crushed in a game, beaten in an argument, or publicly shamed by a stinging insult.

   The streamer got wrecked in under a minute by a twelve-year-old with a better build.

   One reply from the intern and the troll was completely wrecked.

   Similarowned, destroyed, crushed

   Note

   Online slang from gaming and comment threads: a player crushed in seconds, or a poster flattened by one sharp reply, is wrecked. It usually comes with get or be (got wrecked, was completely wrecked) and overlaps with pwned, the gamer's word for a humiliating defeat. Unlike the drunken meaning, it describes a person's standing, not their condition.

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