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wreckful

adj

Etymology

From wreck + -ful.

  1. derived from *wrekaną✻
  2. derived from *wrek✻
  3. derived from wrek
  4. inherited from wrek
  5. suffixed as wreckful — “wreck + ful”

Definitions

  1. Causing wreckage

    Causing wreckage; ruinous.

    • O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
    • […]a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA