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Recking vs Wrecking - What's the difference?

recking | wrecking |

As verbs the difference between recking and wrecking

is that recking is present participle of reck while wrecking is present participle of wreck.

As a noun wrecking is

the act by which something is wrecked.

recking

English

Verb

(head)

    • wrecking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is wrecked.
  • * 1850 , The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)
    • 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.
  • The taking of valuables from a shipwreck close to the shore.