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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wreck  \Wreck\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Wrecked};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Wrecking}.] 
  1.  To  destroy,  disable,  or  seriously  damage,  as  a  vessel,  by 
  driving  it  against  the  shore  or  on  rocks,  by  causing  it  to 
  become  unseaworthy,  to  founder,  or  the  like  to  shipwreck. 
 
  Supposing  that  they  saw  the  king's  ship  wrecked. 
  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  bring  wreck  or  ruin  upon  by  any  kind  of  violence;  to 
  destroy,  as  a  railroad  train. 
 
  3.  To  involve  in  a  wreck;  hence  to  cause  to  suffer  ruin;  to 
  balk  of  success,  and  bring  disaster  on 
 
  Weak  and  envied,  if  they  should  conspire,  They  wreck 
  themselves.  --Daniel. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wrecking  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  wrecking 
  n  1:  the  event  of  a  structure  being  completely  demolished  and 
  leveled  [syn:  {razing}] 
  2:  destruction  achieved  by  wrecking  something  [syn:  {laying 
  waste},  {ruin},  {ruining},  {ruination}] 




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