wreckful
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wreckful (comparative more wreckful, superlative most wreckful)
- (poetic) Causing wreckage; ruinous.
- 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:
- 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?
- 1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old[1]:
- […] a single star I had watched by night searching the wreckful seas […]