wrecker

Plural: wreckers

Noun

• One who destroys or causes significant damage.
• someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
• someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
• a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
• A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.
• One who breaks up situations or events.
• A tow truck.
• A mooncusser (type of land-based pirate).
• Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.

Examples

• home wrecker / marriage wrecker / party wrecker
• The opponent, a true wrecker, demolished all my plans with their high-scoring plays.

Synonyms

diversionist, saboteur, tow car, tow truck, breaker, destroyer, ruiner, vandal

Antonyms

builder, constructor, maker, producer

Related Words

wrecking bar