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wrecking
(mass) | wrecking
- ničenie |
wrecking
(encz) | wrecking,ničení n: Zdeněk Brož |
wrecking
(encz) | wrecking,vyprošťovací adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Wrecking
(gcide) | Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wrecked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wrecking.]
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1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by
driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to
become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
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Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
--Shak.
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2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to
destroy, as a railroad train.
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3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to
balk of success, and bring disaster on.
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Weak and envied, if they should conspire,
They wreck themselves. --Daniel.
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Wrecking
(gcide) | Wrecking \Wreck"ing\,
a. & n. from Wreck, v.
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Wrecking car (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and
implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an
accident, as by a collision.
Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water
from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
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wrecking
(wn) | wrecking
n 1: the event of a structure being completely demolished and
leveled [syn: razing, wrecking]
2: destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or
ruined [syn: laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination,
wrecking] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
wrecking
(mass) | wrecking
- ničenie |
wrecking
(encz) | wrecking,ničení n: Zdeněk Brožwrecking,vyprošťovací adj: Zdeněk Brož |
wrecking bar
(encz) | wrecking bar, n: |
Shipwrecking
(gcide) | Shipwreck \Ship"wreck`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shipwrecked; p.
pr. & vb. n. Shipwrecking.]
1. To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on
rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a
tempest.
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Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break.
--Shak.
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2. To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or
passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or
loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck;
as, to shipwreck a business. --Addison.
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Wrecking car
(gcide) | Wrecking \Wreck"ing\,
a. & n. from Wreck, v.
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Wrecking car (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and
implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an
accident, as by a collision.
Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water
from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
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Wrecking pump
(gcide) | Wrecking \Wreck"ing\,
a. & n. from Wreck, v.
[1913 Webster]
Wrecking car (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and
implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an
accident, as by a collision.
Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water
from the hull of a wrecked vessel.
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wrecking
(wn) | wrecking
n 1: the event of a structure being completely demolished and
leveled [syn: razing, wrecking]
2: destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or
ruined [syn: laying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination,
wrecking] |
wrecking bar
(wn) | wrecking bar
n 1: a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge [syn:
crowbar, wrecking bar, pry, pry bar] |
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