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Synonyms for wrecking
wreck·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
razing, wreckingnoun
the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled
Synonyms:
ruination, ruining, demolishing, ruin, leveling, tearing down, laying waste, razinglaying waste, ruin, ruining, ruination, wreckingnoun
destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined
Synonyms:
razing, ruining, ruination, ruin, laying waste, dilapidation, downfall
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List of paraphrases for "wrecking":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#14164 | ruin | |
#14357 | destroying | |
#18374 | sinking | |
#25523 | leveling | |
#27947 | downfall | |
#33438 | wrecking | |
#36665 | ruining | |
#73999 | demolishing | |
#129130 | razing | |
#158990 | ruination | |
#225378 | dilapidation |
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I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana – so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful.
The wrecking ball it created now has banged into our British allies and our German allies, it's continuing to grow in terms of damage, and he needs to put an end to this, now maybe this is the way he conducted his real estate business, with half-truths and sometimes no-truths and a lot of bluster. That, in my opinion, is no way to run a business. But it's an even worse way to run a country.
This guy, when he’s on he’s like a one-man wrecking crew, we did pitch him tough and I’m sure that he’s going to make the adjustment when we go out there very soon.
I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana – so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that’s only slightly less awful, our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.
The relationship between plants and insects and other organisms have developed over many years -- thousands to millions of years, but in the recent century, climate change is really wrecking everything and perturbing all of these relationships.
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- wreckingHindi
- rombolásHungarian
- penghancuranIndonesian
- demolizioneItalian
- destruiçãoPortuguese
- руйнуванняUkrainian
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