wrecking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of wreck

noun

1. The act by which something is wrecked.

   “The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.”

2. (obsolete)The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.