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wrecking

adjective as in destroying

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So much of the District was burned in the riots of 1968, and even more of it has since been wrecking-balled into condo hell.

The rental house could not have any shared spaces with outsiders, for safety reasons and for Mac, her 115-pound Bernese mountain dog and wrecking ball.

Not until the wrecking crew came to Marshall’s monument and eventually the team name did Rivera change his tune.

The Vision Fund was a wrecking ball, smashing into any company it chose with a big check and demands for rapid growth.

Earth’s magnetic field largely protects astronauts on the space station from these tiny wrecking balls, just as it protects folks on Earth.

In a country where stability is still fragile and requires careful tending, Ebola is a wrecking ball.

And what did Cyrus tell her hair-tossing protégée, besides “Return the wrecking ball NOW, lady”?

You come in like a wrecking ball  Never hit so hard in love  All I wanted was some breakfast, Daaad.

His first shows were in Asbury Park, at a small run down Convention Hall that appeared destined for the wrecking ball.

Tongues were wagging when Miley Cyrus released the R-rated video for her song “Wrecking Ball.”

He himself had not the slightest intention of playing Lothario and of wrecking the peace of the Ducksmith household.

If I were to be the cause of breaking up your home, and wrecking Corydon's life, it would be more than I could bear.

She did not know that this new ardent confidence came near to wrecking her.

The conductor of our train had spotted me from seeing my pass, and I happened to hear him docketing me for the wrecking boss.

Pitt could not, therefore, make it a government measure without almost certainly wrecking his administration.

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On this page you'll find 22 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wrecking, such as: bashing, battering, breaking, ruining, shattering, and smashing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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