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- adjective Drunk or intoxicated.
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- adjective
destroyed in anaccident etc - adjective slang
drunk - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
wreck .
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- adjective destroyed in an accident
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Examples
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I just knew they lived in wrecked farmhouses, and though they did a few typically student-like thingsargued over books, worked on the occasional essay, fell in and out of lovethere was no college campus or teacher anywhere in sight.
A Conversation with Kazuo Ishiguro about Never Let Me Go 2010
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Hamlin wrecked in qualifying to miss the 2008 event, then sat out last season.
Denny Hamlin edges Kyle Busch in Darlington Nationwide race 2010
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There were many cars and trucks on the roadside, wrecked from the bombing of the day.
The Greek Campaign 2010
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What will be wrecked is the health care corporations.
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At the end of half a day's fighting, the patrolmen had drawn off in wrecked boats, with one of their number killed and three wounded.
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Thousands of residents crouched for hours in wrecked apartments as bullets zinged around them.
Upsurge and massacre in Mexico 1968: part 2 blood at Tlatelolco 1998
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Thousands of residents crouched for hours in wrecked apartments as bullets zinged around them.
Upsurge and massacre in Mexico 1968: part 2 blood at Tlatelolco 1998
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And they did take office, in spite of the statement of the President, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, that he would only allow a Minister to take office on the understanding that the Constitution would be wrecked from the inside by their doing so.
Changing India 1938
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At the end of half a day's fighting, the patrolmen had drawn off in wrecked boats, with one of their number killed and three wounded.
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He saw himself, in short, wrecked on the razor-backed shelving rocks of misery.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837
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