WRECKER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)

Synonyms:

tow car; tow truck; wrecker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):

motortruck; truck (an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling)

Derivation:

wreck (smash or break forcefully)

Meaning:

Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

Synonyms:

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrecker"):

sleeper (a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal)

Derivation:

wreck (smash or break forcefully)

Meaning:

Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrecker"):

knacker (someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them)

Derivation:

wreck (smash or break forcefully)