Salvage and Wreckage

Salvage

Salvage noun - The act of rescuing a ship or its crew or its cargo from a shipwreck or a fire.

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Wreckage and salvage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wreckage" instead a noun "Salvage".

Wreckage noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

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Salvage and wreckage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Salvage" instead a noun "Wreckage".

Nearby Words: wreck, wrecked, wrecking

alien	alien salvage	alien wreckage
actual	actual salvage	actual wreckage

Later advances in ROV design and control means it'd be much easier and cheaper to salvage the byzanium from the wreckage without otherwise disturbing the site.

Source: Literature / Raise the Titanic!
A Season Eight episode has an entrepreneur salvage some wreckage from a fight between the Asgard and Goa'uld in Earth orbit, and produce an empty Asgard clone to the press.

Source: Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
Instead, I will form an illicit trade business selling salvage from the wreckage of other independent captains' ships after the Federation ship they tried to parlay with warps off with the witless toad in its brig for trying this plan.

Source: Just For Fun / The Universal Genre Savvy Guide

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