Damage & Destruction

A smear is a smudge of something oily, for example you might smear some butter on your toast. It could also mean any mark or stain that looks like an oily smear. The woman in the picture has smeared lipstick.

A stain is a mark made on something that is very difficult to remove. Sometimes stains are accidental, like the ink stain on the clothes in the picture, and sometimes stains are put on something to change the color on purpose. Cheap, light colored wood like pine is often stained to look like a darker, more expensive wood.

Something is torn if it has been damaged by ripping or tearing it. The mattress in the picture is torn.

A wreck is a large, broken vehicle. There are places that collect car wrecks, for recycling the metal in them. The wreck in the picture is a shipwreck. Shipwrecks are usually under water, and people try and find shipwrecks hoping they have treasure inside.