Antonyms for wrecker
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : rek-er |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɛk ər |
- assured
- author
- bold
- brave
- building
- calm
- cheered
- collected
- comfortable
- composed
- confident
- content
- cool
- courageous
- creation
- creator
- easy
- easy-going
- genuine
- happy
- inattentive
- indifferent
- joyous
- laid-back
- limp
- limpid
- loose
- peaceful
- pleased
- quiet
- relaxed
- restorer
- slack
- success
- tranqil
- unafraid
- uncaring
- unconcerned
- unfearful
- unforced
- untroubled
- unwilling
- unworried
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for wrecker
- afraid
- aghast
- agitated
- annihilator
- antsy
- anxious
- apprehensive
- artificial
- assassin
- at end of rope
- awkward
- bane
- bankrupt
- basket case
- beggar
- beside oneself
- bomber
- botch
- break
- bring down
- bring to ruin
- bugged
- bundle of nerves
- bust
- butterflies
- Cancer
- captious
- careful
- carping
- caviling
- chemotherapy
- choked
- clean out
- clutched
- complaining
- concerned
- constrained
- contrary
- crabby
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crush
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defile
- demolish
- demolisher
- deplete
- deplore
- depredate
- desecrate
- despoil
- despoiler
- destroyer
- destruction
- devour
- difficult
- dilapidate
- disfigure
- disquieted
- distressed
- disturbed
- do in
- downfall
- drain
- dreading
- edgy
- embarrassed
- eradicator
- excited
- executioner
- exhaust
- exterminator
- false
- farfetched
- faultfinding
- fearful
- fidgety
- firebrand
- fleece
- fluttery
- fractious
- fretful
- hacked
- hard put
- high-strung
- huffy
- hung up
- hyper
- iconoclast
- impoverish
- in a state
- in a tizzy
- in suspense
- injure
- jittery
- jumpy
- keyed up
- labored
- lay waste
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mean
- moved
- moving
- mutilate
- nerve-racking
- nervous
- nervous wreck
- nervy
- on edge
- ornery
- out of sorts
- overanxious
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- overwrought
- pauperize
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- pillage
- pillager
- poison
- put
- queasy
- querulous
- radiation
- ransacker
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- restive
- restless
- sack
- savage
- scared
- self-conscious
- shaking
- shaky
- shatter
- shivery
- shook up
- short-tempered
- shot
- shot to pieces
- slaughterer
- smash
- snappish
- solicitous
- splenetic
- spoil
- spoilate
- spooked
- stiff
- strained
- stressful
- strung out
- sweating bullets
- taut
- tense
- testy
- tight
- total
- touchy
- troubled
- uncomfortable
- undoing
- uneasy
- unglued
- unnatural
- unnerved
- unquiet
- unrelaxed
- up the wall
- uptight
- use up
- vandal
- watchful
- white knuckled
- wipe out
- wired
- worried
- worried sick
- worrying
- wound up
- wrack
- wreak havoc on
- wreck
- wrecker
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