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wrecking |
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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