wreath, n.1. garland, coronal, Literary, anadem, festoon, lei, chaplet; diadem, coronet.
2. circle, loop, ring; curl, spiral, coil,
wreathe, v. 1. adorn, garland, festoon, decorate, embellish; laurel.
2. twist, wind, coil, spiral, snake, curl; twine, entwine, weave.
3. encircle, circle, ring, surround; envelop, enfold, wrap, enwrap, hug, embrace.
wreck, n.1. wrack, mess, total ruin, ruin, havoc; pileup, accident, smash-up, crack-up, chain accident, collision; shipwreck, Naut. derelict; flotsam and jetsam, wreckage, debris, detritus, ruins, fragments, relics, pieces, remains.
2. destruction, devastation, desolation, ravagement, ruination; demolition, pulverization, razing, leveling, pulling down, tearing down; smashing, shattering, crashing, cracking; disintegration, deterioration, decay; quashing, quelling, stifling, suppression; shooting down, cutting short, nipping in the bud; annihilation, extermination, obliteration, cancellation, termination, end, downfall.
-v. 3. shipwreck, scuttle, run aground, run into the rocks, sink, capsize, founder.
4. devastate, demolish, desolate, ruin, destroy; smash, (of a car) SI. total, knock to pieces, reduce to nothing, shatter, Inf. break into smithereens; blast, blow up, explode, dynamite, put the torch to; raze, tear down, pull down, knock down, dismantle, disassemble; vandalize, waste, SI. trash; bulldoze, flatten, level, take the wrecker's ball to, gut.
5. quash, crush, subdue, quell, stifle, squelch, put down; defeat, upset, upset the applecart; annihilate, exterminate, eradicate, expunge, obliterate; blot out, erase, rub out, cancel, eliminate, do away with; mess up, Inf. rain on, play havoc with, spoil, SI. screw up, Inf. make a hash of, botch, SI. louse up, SI. gum up the works, throw a monkey wrench into the works; kill, finish, extinguish, put out, snuff; liquidate, slay, get rid of, expel, throw out; terminate, conclude, finish, put an end to, bring to an end, end, write finis to.
6. collide, crash, smash up, crack up; go up in smoke, come to naught, end with a whimper, come to grief.
wrench, v. 1. twist, turn, pull, jerk, yank, tug, force, tear, rip.
2. strain, wrick, overstrain, sprain, throw out of joint.
3. distress, hurt, trouble, perturb, harrow; tug or yank at one's heartstrings, break one's heart, cut to the heart, make one's heart bleed, cut to the quick; affect, touch, move, stir; pain, sadden, wound, dishearten, depress; afflict, bother, worry, torment, torture.
4. wrest, extract, pry out, pull out, pluck out, wring from, withdraw, distill; draw out, elicit, evoke, educe. -n. 5. twist, yank, jerk, jolt, tug, pull; strain, sprain.
6. heartache, tug of the heartstrings, pang, throe; pain, hurt, ache, stab in the heart, agony; heartbreak, sorrow, grief, anguish, sadness, despair, desolation, sense of loss.
7. distortion, garbling, perversion, misconstruction, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mistranslation; falsification, coloring, false coloring, false meaning, slant.
wrestle, v. 1. clinch, grab, Dial, rassle, squeeze, press, throw, throw to the mat.
2. grapple, tussle, scuffle, fight, battle; tackle, dive at, tilt at, joust; struggle, contend, pit oneself against, play against, take on, come to grips with, face, face up to; go all out, do one's best or damnedest, knock oneself out, labor, work like a Trojan, work at, work like a stevedore; take pains, persevere, persist, be assiduous,