wrecker
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wreck·er
(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)n
1. a person or thing that ruins or destroys
2. (Building) chiefly US and Canadian a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars
3. (Automotive Engineering) chiefly US and Canadian a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars
4. (Nautical Terms) (formerly) a person who lures ships to destruction to plunder the wreckage
5. (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]
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Noun | 1. | wrecker - someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job housewrecker, 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 them laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor |
2. | ![]() ruiner, 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. | ![]() motortruck, truck - an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling |
wrecker
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wrecker
[ˈrekəʳ] N1. (= destroyer) (gen) → destructor(a) m/f (Hist) [of ships] → saboteador(a) m/f persona que que se dedicaba a provocar naufragios
2. (US) (= breaker, salvager) → demoledor m
3. (US) (= breakdown van) → camión-grúa m
wrecker
n
(= ship wrecker) → Strandräuber m (der Schiffe durch falsche Lichtsignale zum Stranden bringt)
(US: = breakdown van) → Abschleppwagen m