Wreckful

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing wreckage; ruinous. poetic

    "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?"

Example

More examples

"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?"

Etymology

From wreck + -ful.

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