Wreckful
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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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