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Webster 1913 Edition


Wreckful

Wreck′ful

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Adj.
Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive.
“By wreckful wind.”
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition


Wreckful

WRECKFUL

,
Adj.
Causing wreck.

Definition 2024


wreckful

wreckful

English

Adjective

wreckful (comparative more wreckful, superlative most wreckful)

  1. (poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.
    • William Shakespeare, Sonnet 65
      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?
    • 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old:
      [] a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas []