- wreckage
- nounADJECTIVE▪ mangled, tangled (esp. BrE), twisted▪ blazing, burning, flaming, smoking, smoldering▪ aircraft, plane▪ human▪
the human wreckage of the battlefield
… OF WRECKAGE▪ bit (esp. BrE), piece▪Pieces of wreckage have been found up to three miles away.
▪ pileVERB + WRECKAGE▪ scatter, spread▪The crash left wreckage spread over a wide area.
▪ be strewn with▪The runway is still strewn with wreckage.
▪ survey▪He surveyed the wreckage of his expensive equipment.
▪ comb, comb through, search, sift through▪Police are searching the wreckage for clues to the cause of the accident.
▪ examine▪ clear▪The wreckage has now been cleared from the road.
▪ be buried beneath, be buried in, be trapped in▪Several people are still trapped in the wreckage.
▪ crawl from▪ cut sb free from (BrE), cut sb from (BrE), free sb from, pull sb from▪It took workers several minutes to free him from the wreckage.
▪He had to be cut from the wreckage by firemen.
▪ recover sth from, rescue sb/sth from, salvage sth from▪Another body has been recovered from the wreckage.
▪Could nothing be rescued from the wreckage of her dreams? (figurative)
▪ emerge from (figurative)▪A new leader emerged from the wreckage of the election.
WRECKAGE + VERB▪ be strewn▪Wreckage was strewn over a wide area.
PREPOSITION▪ amidst the wreckage, among the wreckage▪Bodies lay among the tangled wreckage.
▪ in the wreckage▪Her body was discovered in the wreckage.
▪ wreckage from▪A search is going on for wreckage from the blazing aircraft.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
