Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wreck \Wreck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wrecked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Wrecking}.]
   1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by
      driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to
      become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.

            Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked.
                                                  --Shak.

   2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to
      destroy, as a railroad train.

   3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to
      balk of success, and bring disaster on.

            Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck
            themselves.                           --Daniel.

Wrecking \Wreck"ing\,
   a. & n. from {Wreck}, v.

   {Wrecking car} (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and
      implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an
      accident, as by a collision.

   {Wrecking pump}, a pump especially adapted for pumping water
      from the hull of a wrecked vessel.

Source : WordNet®

wrecking
     n 1: the event of a structure being completely demolished and
          leveled [syn: {razing}]
     2: destruction achieved by wrecking something [syn: {laying
        waste}, {ruin}, {ruining}, {ruination}]