'Wrecking' definitions:
Definition of 'wrecking'
(from WordNet)
noun
The event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled [syn: razing, wrecking]
noun
Destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined [syn: laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking]
Definition of 'Wrecking'
From: GCIDE
- Wrecking \Wreck"ing\, a. & n. from Wreck, v. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wrecking'
From: GCIDE
- Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. [1913 Webster]
- Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]