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Wrecking vs Ruining - What's the difference?

wrecking | ruining |

As verbs the difference between wrecking and ruining

is that wrecking is while ruining is .

As a noun wrecking

is the act by which something is wrecked.

wrecking

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  • 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.

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