wrecker

wreck·er  (rkr)

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. A person, vehicle, or piece of equipment employed in recovering or removing wrecks, especially a truck with a hoist and towing apparatus used in towing disabled or wrecked vehicles.

b. One that salvages wrecked cargo or parts.

4.

a. One who lures a vessel to destruction, as by a display of lights on a rocky coastline, in order to plunder it.

b. A plunderer.

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wrecker

Noun

1. a person who destroys or badly damages something: a marriage wrecker

2. (formerly) a person who lured ships on to the rocks in order to plunder them

3. Chiefly US, Canad & NZ a person whose job is to demolish buildings or dismantle cars

4. US & Canad a breakdown van

Thesaurus

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.	wrecker - someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks diversionist, saboteur 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.	wrecker - a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) tow car, tow truck motortruck, truck - an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling

Translations

wrecker [ˈrɛkəʳ] n (US) (= breakdown van); camión-grúa m

wrecker [ˈrɛkəʳ] n (US) (= breakdown van); dépanneuse f

wrecker [ˈrɛkəʳ] wreck (US) n (= breakdown van) → Abschleppwagen m

wrecker [ˈrɛkəʳ] n (US) (= breakdown van); carro m attrezzi inv