wreckful

[rek-fuh l]

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adjective Archaic.

causing wreckage.

Origin of wreckful

First recorded in 1590–1600; wreck + -ful

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Related Words for wreckful

suicidal, deadly, calamitous, hurtful, pernicious, harmful, toxic, cataclysmic, disastrous, detrimental, catastrophic, lethal, ruinous, fatal, damaging, baleful, baneful, cancerous, consumptive, cutthroat

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Historical Examples of wreckful

I saw that whilst I had imagined my 'mountain to stand strong,' it was yet heaving with the wreckful fire.
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British Dictionary definitions for wreckful

wreckful

adjective

poetic causing wreckage

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