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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
wrecker
    n 1: someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
    2: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
       [syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist]
    3: a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove
       cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car,
       wrecker]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wrecker \Wreck"er\, n.
   1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of
      vessels, etc. Specifically:
      (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.
      (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a
          wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the
          wreckers of Key West.
          [1913 Webster]

   3. A vessel employed by wreckers.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Wrecker:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, depredator, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, forager, forayer, freebooter, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, man-eater, marauder, nihilist, pillager, plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler, ruiner, sacker, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, vandal, wild man
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