wrecker

as instrained
as intense
as infretful
as inanxious
as indestroyer
as inruination

Synonyms for wrecker

adj forced, pretended

Antonyms for wrecker

Word Origin & History

1804, in reference to those who salvage cargos from wrecked ships, from wreck (n.). In Britain often with a overtones of "one who causes a shipwreck in order to plunder it" (1820); but in 19c. Bahamas and the Florida Keys it could be a legal occupation. Applied to those who wreck and plunder institutions from 1882. Meaning "demolition worker" attested by 1958. As a type of ship employed in salvage operations, from 1789. As a railway vehicle with a crane or hoist, from 1904.

Example Sentences for wrecker

He knows them, now, for false lights on the wrecker's coast.

The Wrecker is a wild and interesting story which had a large success.

"That's what I'm trying to tell you," went on Wrecker calmly.

Then Dick talked in whispers with Wrecker for a few moments.

Now, skip over there, Wrecker, and hide with the fellows in the bushes.

To the wrecker of railroads on Wall Street it was indubitably petty.

You mean become a smuggler, a wrecker, and a general law-breaker.

Plug in the round-house for the wrecker—and tell them to send uptown for the crew.

One heap bore the form of a cross, and was probably the sepulchre of a wrecker.

There was a struggle, none the less desperate because the wrecker was underneath.

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Synonyms for wrecker

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More words related to wrecker

destroyer

ruination