ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Wreckful

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Wreckful is an adjective meaning (poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.

Meaning

(poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.

Example Sentences

[…]a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas[…]
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include siege, ruinous, wreckish, wrecksome, spoilsome, wrecky.

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