[f. WRECK sb.1 + -FUL.] Causing shipwreck, ruin or disaster; dangerous, destructive.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., VI. viii. 36. Straungers … which on their border Were brought … by wreckfull wynde.

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1810.  Scott, Lady of L., V. i. The wreckful storms that cloud the brow of War.

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1848.  J. C. Mangan, Poems (1903), 106. This dull world still slumbers…. In a midnight dream, Drifts it down Time’s wreckful stream.

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1876.  Tennyson, Harold, III. i. 51. A summer mere with sudden wreckful gusts From a side-gorge.

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