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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 wrecking
 失事,遇難船,營救難船

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]