Word Meanings - WRECKFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. "By wreckful wind." Spenser.

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• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• WRECKING
  a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car , a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. -- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• DESTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• CAUSAL
  A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• WRECKFUL
  Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. "By wreckful wind." Spenser.
• WRECKAGE
  1. The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked. 2. That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck.
• DESTRUCTIVELY
  In a destructive manner.
• WRECK
  1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck. Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. Shak. 2. To bring
• WRECKER
  1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. 2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. One who is employed in saving property or lives
• INVOLVE
  To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power. Syn. -- To imply; include; implicate; complicate; entangle; embarrass; overwhelm. -- To Involve,
• CAUSIDICAL
  Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
• INVOLVEMENT
  The act of involving, or the state of being involved. Lew Wallace.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• BEWRECK
  To wreck.
• ENCAUSTIC
  Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which
• UNCAUSED
  Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal. A. Baxter.
• EREMACAUSIS
  A gradual oxidation from exposure to air and moisture, as in the decay of old trees or of dead animals.
• CATACAUSTIC
  Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.