Wrecking

Synonyms for "wrecking" (26 found)

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Closest matches (6)

careless damage demolition

Noun(3 words)

corruption debasement degradation

Strong matches (7)

Noun(2 words)

depravation deterioration

destruction feckless heedless inadvertent laying waste

Related words (13)

Noun(5 words)

laying waste razing ruin ruination ruining

ravage razing sabotage smashing subversion thoughtless undermining unthinking

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

4 entries

demolition destruction devastation wipeout

Synonyms

2 entries

laying waste razing

derived

6 entries

wrecking amendment wrecking ball wrecking bar wrecking car wrecking pump wrecking yard

form of

1 entries

wreck

related to

4 entries

shipwreck shore valuable wreck

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Yanni is wrecking his own potential success.

Source: tatoeba (10076082)

Ziri started running around the room, wrecking things.

Source: tatoeba (10962685)

The giant creature began wrecking havoc in the village.

Source: tatoeba (11661204)

Experts agree that the next few decades will present a puzzle, how to feed nine billion people without wrecking the planet in the process.

Source: tatoeba (12246863)

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