wrecker

as instrained

as intense
as infretful
as inanxious
as indestroyer
as inruination

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adj forced, pretended

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destroyer

noun. a destructive agent

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.

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

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

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

destroyer