wreck

Romantic frustration that is denied may literally begin to wreck our hearts.

-Legal experts are saying that this week's Supreme Court ruling has taken a wrecking ball to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Any small distractions at all, like a cellphone ringing in my pocket, would instantly throw my brain back to the old control algorithm and I would wreck.

The contingency plan, if there had been a flood tide, would have been to close all the other gates and use the force of the water trying to get through to blast the wrecked ship clear.