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
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.
• (one who wrecks): breaker, destroyer, ruiner, vandal
• (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
2 April 2025
(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
