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wrecked

(rĕkt)

adj. Slang

Drunk or intoxicated.

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wrecked

(rɛkt)

adj

1. (Recreational Drugs) slang in a state of intoxication, stupor, or euphoria, induced by drugs or alcohol

2. (Brewing) slang in a state of intoxication, stupor, or euphoria, induced by drugs or alcohol

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Adj.

wrecked - destroyed in an accident; "a wrecked ship"; "a highway full of wrecked cars"

destroyed - spoiled or ruined or demolished; "war left many cities destroyed"; "Alzheimer's is responsible for her destroyed mind"

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wrecked

[rekt] ADJ

1. (= destroyed) → destruido; (= broken down) → estropeado, averiado; [ship] → naufragado, hundido

2. [person] (= exhausted) → hecho polvo; (= drunk) → cocido; (from drugs) (= high) → colocado
he got really wrecked at the party → se coció bien en la fiesta, se cogió una buena borrachera en la fiesta

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His not ignoble ambition seems always to have been to be wrecked upon an island, indeed I am told that he mentioned it insinuatingly in his prayers, and it was perhaps inevitable that a boy with such an outlook should fascinate David.

On first hearing, from some satellite of Oliver's, of Wrecked Islands, as they are called in the Gardens, David said wistfully that he supposed you needed to be very very good before you had any chance of being wrecked, and the remark was conveyed to Oliver, on whom it made an uncomfortable impression.

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But though it was now an old story, and the most aged people had almost forgotten that such a vessel had been wrecked, William Phips resolved that the sunken treasure should again be brought to light.

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But D'Entrecasteaux, ignoring this communication-- rather uncertain, besides--directed his course towards the Admiralty Islands, mentioned in a report of Captain Hunter's as being the place where La Perouse was wrecked.

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How he happened to have come to Africa he did not tell them, leaving them to assume he had forgotten the incidents of his life prior to the frightful ordeals that had wrecked him mentally and physically.

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That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year.

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When I was wrecked in the Solomons on the blackbirder, the Minota, it was Captain Kellar, master of the blackbirder, the Eugenie, who rescued me.

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When was I wrecked? When was I first adrift in the boat?

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As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent tempest arose in which the ship was wrecked and he, his Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives.

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I wrecked thee, and to-day the compasses would feign have wrecked me.

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If it came to being wrecked on a desert island, I'd prefer Von Blix."

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Among the ships that were lost in the tempest was a vessel bound from Holland, which was wrecked on the rocky shore near Dermody's place of abode.