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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job;

2. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks;
[syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist]

3. a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones);
[syn: tow truck, tow car, wrecker]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wrecker \Wreck"er\, n. 1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. [1913 Webster] 2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West. [1913 Webster] 3. A vessel employed by wreckers. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

wrecker n 1: someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job 2: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist] 3: a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car, wrecker]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

49 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrecker": animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, depredator, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, forager, forayer, freebooter, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, man-eater, marauder, nihilist, pillager, plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler, ruiner, sacker, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, vandal, wild man