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# wreckage

«wreckage» in Mova's school dictionary: **The broken pieces left after a ship, plane, car or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «wreckage» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wreckage/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.