wrecking : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: wrecking	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for wrecking
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wrecking n the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled Synonym(s): razing, wrecking destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined Synonym(s): laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wrecking
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.