Wrecking

3 definitions found

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) 2.0 [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}]