Meaning of WRECKING
| Pronunciation: | | r'eking
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- [n] destruction achieved by wrecking something
- [n] the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled
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| | Synonyms: | | laying waste, razing, ruin, ruination, ruining |
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| | See Also: | | demolition, destruction, destruction, devastation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Wreck"ing\,
a. & n. from {Wreck}, v.
{Wrecking car} (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and
implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an
accident, as by a collision.
{Wrecking pump}, a pump especially adapted for pumping water
from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
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