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adjectivewreckful (comparative more wreckful, superlative most wreckful)
comparative more wreckful · superlative most wreckful
- poeticCausing wreckage; ruinous.
[…]a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas[…]
1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old1 more example
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?
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 65”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
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