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Princeton's WordNet

  1. razing, wreckingnoun

    the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

  2. laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wreckingnoun

    destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

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  1. wrecking

    Wrecking refers to the act of intentionally causing severe damage, ruin, or destruction to something like a vehicle, building, or even a plan or system. This can be done for various reasons such as clearing space for newer constructions, dismantling an old or hazardous structure, or sabotaging a process or plan.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wrecking

    of Wreck

  2. Wrecking

    a. & n. from Wreck, v

Wikidata

  1. Wrecking

    Wrecking is the practice of taking valuables from a shipwreck which has foundered near or close to shore. Often an unregulated activity of opportunity in coastal communities, wrecking has been subjected to increasing regulation and evolved into what is now known as marine salvage. Wrecking is no longer economically significant; however, as recently as the 19th century in some parts of the world, it was the mainstay of otherwise economically marginal coastal communities.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wrecking in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Wrecking in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Wrecking in a Sentence

  1. Adam Schiff:

    The wrecking ball it created now has banged into our British allies and our German allies, it's continuing to grow in terms of damage, and he needs to put an end to this, now maybe this is the way he conducted his real estate business, with half-truths and sometimes no-truths and a lot of bluster. That, in my opinion, is no way to run a business. But it's an even worse way to run a country.

  2. Ken Kimmell:

    There is no way to sugarcoat this, President Trump has taken a wrecking ball to environmental protection in the US, frankly I didn't think this would happen with the severity with this is happening. We have had changes in powers before. Different presidents strike a different balance. But this is a severe attack that we didn't expect.

  3. Amos Tai:

    The relationship between plants and insects and other organisms have developed over many years -- thousands to millions of years, but in the recent century, climate change is really wrecking everything and perturbing all of these relationships.

  4. Susan Olsen:

    It would kind of be like wrecking the American family.

  5. Prime Minister Scott Morrison:

    We don't want job-destroying, economy-destroying, economy-wrecking targets and goals, which won't change the fact that there have been bushfires or anything like that in Australia.

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