wreck
noun
any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
is wrecking
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present progressiveof wreck (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Officials decry the trespassing as a risky gambit that is wrecking an iconic property they want revived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
They’ll be digging into why money stress is wrecking your life — and how to fix it.
From MarketWatch ● May 12, 2026
Apparently, the threshold for this show is Season 13, in which its heralded tradition of featuring inclusive casts is wrecking itself against old-school colonialist cluelessness.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2022
The surging dollar is wrecking stock portfolios, clobbering commodity prices and sinking rival currencies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2022
All this inculcated adult docility, which wrecks every civilization as it is wrecking ours, is inhuman and unnatural.
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
