Hypertext Webster Gateway: "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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

wrecking
n 1: the event of a structure being completely demolished and
leveled [syn: {razing}]
2: destruction achieved by wrecking something [syn: {laying
waste}, {ruin}, {ruining}, {ruination}]


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