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# wreckage

noun (no plural)

«wreckage» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

The broken pieces left after a ship, plane, car or building has been destroyed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreckage/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories, the broken bits of a ship washed up after a storm, which may show what happened

### Examples

- The wreckage of the ship lay on the rocks. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreckage/#x1)
- Divers found pieces of wreckage on the sea bed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreckage/#x2)
- Fishermen gathered wreckage from the shore. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreckage/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «wreckage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreckage/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«wreckage» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/wreckage.html) on Mova free.