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