From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrecked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wrecking}.]
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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.
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Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
--Shak.
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2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to
destroy, as a railroad train.
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3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to
balk of success, and bring disaster on.
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Weak and envied, if they should conspire,
They wreck themselves. --Daniel.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Wrecking \Wreck"ing\,
a. & n. from {Wreck}, v.
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{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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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wrecking
n 1: the event of a structure being completely demolished and
leveled [syn: {razing}, {wrecking}]
2: destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or
ruined [syn: {laying waste}, {ruin}, {ruining}, {ruination},
{wrecking}]
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