Difference between Crash and Wreck

What is the difference between Crash and Wreck?

Crash as a noun is an automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. while Wreck as a noun is something or someone that has been ruined.

Crash

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. A computer malfunction that is caused by faulty software, and makes the system either partially or totally inoperable. A loud sound as made for example by cymbals. A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures) A comedown of a drug. A company of rhinoceroses. Plain linen.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently. To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else. (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation. To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it. To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements. To terminate extraordinarily. To cause to terminate extraordinarily. To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: quick, fast, intensive

Example sentence: I was just a toddler when my dad died in a car crash. With my mum, Eunice, being a young widow with a large family, she really struggled money-wise.

Wreck

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Something or someone that has been ruined.The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.An event in which something is damaged through collision.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.To ruin or dilapidate.To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. (Australia)

Example sentence: I am not like Stephen King, who writes one book, then writes another. I finish a book and go off and... look for wrecks. Then, six months later, I might start another book.

We hope you now know whether to use Crash or Wreck in your sentence.

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