WRECKER

saboteur, wrecker, diversionist

(noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

wrecker

(noun) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

wrecker (plural wreckers)

A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. (Australia)

One who breaks up situations, events.

A tow truck.

A mooncusser.

In the Soviet Union, someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking, that is, undermining the state in intangible ways.

Synonyms

• (one who wrecks): breaker, destroyer, ruiner, vandal

Antonyms

• (one who wrecks): builder, constructor, maker, producer

Source: Wiktionary


Wreck"er, n.

1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.

2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West.

3. A vessel employed by wreckers.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

8 November 2024

REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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