[f. WRECK v.1 + -ING2.]
1. That wrecks; causing wreck, ruin or destruction; destructive.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm., Wks. 1686, III. 228. [Industry] is in itself … satisfactory; as freeing our mind from distraction, and wrecking irresolution.
1809. Malkin, Gil Blas, XI. ix. ¶ 4. The wrecking fury of the storm.
1880. R. Bridges, Shorter Poems, Wks. (1912), 275. The moon, That poured her midnight noon Upon his wrecking sea.
1893. Westm. Gaz., 9 Feb., 7/2. Playing a wrecking game towards the present Government.
2. Going to wreck; becoming wrecked.
1903. S. E. White, Forest, viii. 95. A man … desperately scaled the face of the moving jam, and reached the top just as the two sections ground together with the brutish noise of wrecking timbers.
