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noun

Wrecking n. 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.

verb

Wreck v. t. (past & past part. wrecked; pres. part. wrecking)

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."

To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.

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."

Wreck v. i.

To suffer wreck or ruin.

To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

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"Wrecking" Quotes from Famous Books

... ago. But ever since your book of reminiscences went into two more editions than his, and the rush for it led to the wrecking of the Times Book Club, you have become to all intents and purposes his senior. He lost ground by saying that the wrecking was got up by the booksellers. It showed jealousy: and ...

— Press Cuttings • George Bernard Shaw

... orders to join me in a few days, in order to reinforce me until my commandos should come back. My intention was not to undertake any great operations, for my force was not strong enough for that. I intended my principal occupation to be to interrupt the communications of the enemy by wrecking the line and telegraph. ...

— Three Years' War • Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

... slept. However, Dick Sand, alone, did not seek in sleep the repose which was so necessary to him. Thought absorbed him. He dreamed of his companions, whom he would save at all hazards. The wrecking of the "Pilgrim" had not been the end of their cruel trials, and others, still more terrible, threatened them should they fall into the hands ...

— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne

... out rattled from its scabbard the old worthy's sword. "Come back, I say, you loafing, miching, wrecking crow-keepers; there are no pickings for you here. Brown, send those fellows back with the bayonet. None but blue-jackets allowed on the beach!" And the labourers ...

— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley

... her hand, and said, eagerly, "Now, Kate, do not trifle. I must have some certainty that I am not wrecking your happiness. I cannot wait a year in suspense. I am a man. I have not the patience ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

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