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English noun: wrecker

1. wrecker (person) someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job


Broader (hypernym)jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer


Narrower (hyponym)housebreaker, housewrecker, knacker

2. wrecker (person) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks


Synonymsdiversionist, saboteur


Broader (hypernym)destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster


Narrower (hyponym)sleeper

3. wrecker (artifact) a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)


Synonymstow car, tow truck


Broader (hypernym)motortruck, truck









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