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WRECKER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):
motortruck; truck (an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling)
Derivation:
wreck (smash or break forcefully)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
Synonyms:
diversionist; saboteur; wrecker
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):
destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrecker"):
sleeper (a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal)
Derivation:
wreck (smash or break forcefully)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):
jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrecker"):
housebreaker; housewrecker (a wrecker of houses)
knacker (someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them)
Derivation:
wreck (smash or break forcefully)
