wreckful

English

Etymology

wreck +‎ -ful

Adjective

wreckful (comparative more wreckful, superlative most wreckful)

1. (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 […]