wrecker

wreck·er

W0236800 (rĕk′ər)n.1. One that wrecks or destroys: a wrecker of dreams.2. a. One who is in the business of demolishing old buildings.b. One who dismantles cars for salvage.3. A tow truck used to move disabled or wrecked vehicles.4. One who lures a vessel to destruction, as by a display of lights on a rocky coastline, in order to plunder it.

wrecker

(ˈrɛkə) n1. a person or thing that ruins or destroys2. (Building) chiefly US and Canadian a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars3. (Automotive Engineering) chiefly US and Canadian a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars4. (Nautical Terms) (formerly) a person who lures ships to destruction to plunder the wreckage5. (Automotive Engineering) US and Canadian another word for tow truck

wreck•er

(ˈrɛk ər)

n. 1. a person or thing that wrecks. 2. a person, car, or train employed in removing wreckage, debris, etc., as from railroad tracks. 3. Also called tow car , tow truck. a vehicle equipped with a mechanical apparatus for hoisting and pulling, used to tow wrecked, disabled, or stalled automobiles. 4. a person or business that demolishes and removes houses or other buildings, as in clearing sites for other use. 5. a person or vessel employed in recovering salvage from wrecked or disabled vessels. 6. a person who plunders wrecks, esp. after exhibiting false signals in order to cause shipwrecks. [1795–1805]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a jobhousewrecker, housebreaker - a wrecker of houses; "in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker"knacker - someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in themlaborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
	2.	wrecker - someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecksdiversionist, saboteurruiner, uprooter, waster, destroyer, undoer - a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to; "a destroyer of the environment"; "jealousy was his undoer"; "uprooters of gravestones"sleeper - a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal
	3.	wrecker - a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)tow car, tow truckmotortruck, truck - an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

wrecker

nounSomething that causes total loss or severe impairment, as of one's health, fortune, honor, or hopes:bane, destroyer, destruction, downfall, ruin, ruination, undoing.

Translations

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wrecker

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