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noun ADJ. mangled, tangled, twisted | blazing, burning, smoking | aircraft QUANT. bit, piece Pieces of wreckage have been found up to three miles away. VERB + WRECKAGE scatter, spread The crash left wreckage spread over a wide area. | be strewn with The runway is still strewn with wreckage. | sight Wreckage has been sighted fifteen miles north of the island. | survey He surveyed the wreckage of his expensive equipment. | 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 motorway. | be buried in, be trapped in Several people are still trapped in the wreckage. | crawl from | cut sb (free) from, free sb from, pull sb from He had to be cut from the wreckage by firemen. | find sth among The remains of an explosive device were found among the wreckage. | recover sth from, rescue/save sb/sth from, salvage sth from Another body has been recovered from the wreckage. (figurative) Could nothing be rescued from the wreckage of her dreams? WRECKAGE + VERB be strewn Wreckage was strewn over a wide area. PREP. amidst/among/amongst the ~ Bodies lay among the tangled wreckage. | in the ~ Her body was discovered in the wreckage. | ~ from A search is going on for wreckage from the blazing aircraft.
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verbs
be pulled from the wreckage
• The driver was pulled from the wreckage of his car.
be cut (free) from the wreckage
• She had to be cut free from the wreckage by firemen.
be trapped in the wreckage
• He was trapped in the wreckage for almost seven hours.
wreckage is strewn/scattered/spread
• The wreckage was strewn over a large area.
sift through wreckage
(= carefully look through all the pieces )
• Crash investigators have been sifting through the wreckage of the plane.
examine wreckage
• Forensic experts were yesterday examining the wreckage.
recover something from the wreckage
• The bodies of two children were recovered from the wreckage.
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + wreckage
burning/blazing/smoking wreckage
• He managed to crawl away from the burning wreckage.
mangled/tangled/twisted wreckage
• Recovery teams continue to clear the tangled wreckage.
scattered wreckage
• The equipment was used to clear the scattered wreckage of the two trains.
aircraft/plane wreckage
• The major task is now to remove the aircraft wreckage from the accident site.
phrases
a piece of wreckage
• The fishermen were left clinging to pieces of wreckage.
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