WRECKING Synonyms

• complete destruction of a building

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• ruinously destructive and wasting

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• kill one in every ten, as of mutineers in Roman armies

• kill in large numbers

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• reduced to nothingness

• mark for deletion, rub off, or erase

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• remove completely from recognition or memory

• do away with completely, without leaving a trace

• complete destruction of a building

• a loud resonant repeating noise

• a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)

• a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)

• the act of colliding with something

• (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative

• fall or come down violently

• move with, or as if with, a crashing noise

• undergo damage or destruction on impact

• move violently as through a barrier

• break violently or noisily; smash

• occupy, usually uninvited

• make a sudden loud sound

• enter uninvited; informal

• cause to crash

• hurl or thrust violently

• undergo a sudden and severe downturn

• stop operating

• sleep in a convenient place

• a wrecked ship (or a part of one)

• an irretrievable loss

• an accident that destroys a ship at sea

• ruin utterly

• suffer failure, as in some enterprise

• cause to experience shipwreck

• destroy a ship

• dried seaweed especially that cast ashore

• the destruction or collapse of something

• growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

• smash or break forcefully