English
Adjective
wreckful (comparative more wreckful, superlative most wreckful)
- (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?
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1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old:- […] a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas […]