Synonyms for wrecker

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : rek-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ər

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Définition of wrecker

Origin : 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.

As in strained : adj forced, pretended
As in tense : adj under stress, pressure
As in fretful : adj irritable
As in anxious : adj worried, tense
As in destroyer : noun a destructive agent
As in ruination : noun ruin

Example sentences :

He knows them, now, for false lights on the wrecker's coast.
Extract from : « Holbein » by Beatrice Fortescue

The Wrecker is a wild and interesting story which had a large success.
Extract from : « Robert Louis Stevenson » by Margaret Moyes Black

"That's what I'm trying to tell you," went on Wrecker calmly.
Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock

Then Dick talked in whispers with Wrecker for a few moments.
Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock

Now, skip over there, Wrecker, and hide with the fellows in the bushes.
Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock

To the wrecker of railroads on Wall Street it was indubitably petty.
Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland

You mean become a smuggler, a wrecker, and a general law-breaker.
Extract from : « The Birthright » by Joseph Hocking

Plug in the round-house for the wrecker—and tell them to send uptown for the crew.
Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories » by Various

One heap bore the form of a cross, and was probably the sepulchre of a wrecker.
Extract from : « Captain Canot » by Brantz Mayer

There was a struggle, none the less desperate because the wrecker was underneath.
Extract from : « The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast » by Victor Appleton

Antonyms for wrecker

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