Translations for „wreck“ in the English » Portuguese Dictionary

I . wreck [rek] VB trans

wreck car

destroçar

wreck hopes, plan

arruinar

to wreck sb's life

arruinar a vida de alguém

II . wreck [rek] N

wreck AUTO, NAUT

destroços m pl

an old wreck (car)

um ferro m velho

to be a nervous wreck

estar com os nervos em frangalhos m pl

to feel a complete wreck

estar um trapo m

Usage examples with wreck

to wreck sb's life

arruinar a vida de alguém

an old wreck (car)

um ferro m velho

to be a nervous wreck

estar com os nervos em frangalhos m pl

to feel a complete wreck

estar um trapo m

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Quite apart from being "extremely damaging" to the youngster, it threatened to wreck her relationship with her school friends and scandalise their parents, he added.

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The intent is something like complete wreck, which is quite inappropriate to the real meaning of the term.

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Campaigners have long argued for official recognition of the wreck as a war grave.

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Her rudder, anchor, and windlass were illegally removed from her wreck site in the 1980s.

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Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap.

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This is particularly important in cave and wreck penetration diving, where the light is required to facilitate navigation out of the enclosed space.

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Wood platforms were constructed on top of the caissons to support the cranes and derricks to be used to handle the wreck.

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The wreck is now a protected war grave.

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The wreck is considerably broken up, and is hard to find on an echo sounder.

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They discover 337 survivors and their descendants living in an air bubble in the wreck.

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