wrecking

Relating to the work of removing wreckage, as on a railway, of saving wrecked vessels or their cargoes, or of tearing down old buildings; also, such work itself.

a. & n. from wreck, v.

a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision.

a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel.

Present participle of wreck.

the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined