wrecking

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun wrecking has 2 senses

wrecking(n = noun.event) razing - the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled;

is a kind of demolition, destruction, wipeout

wrecking(n = noun.act) laying waste, ruin, ruination, ruining - destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined;

is a kind of destruction, devastation

Derived form verb wreck₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

wrecking, a. & n.

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.