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unwrecking

unwrecking is the present participle and gerund of unwreck.

Meaning of unwreck

Verb

unwreck (third-person singular simple present unwrecks, present participle unwrecking, simple past and past participle unwrecked)

  1. (transitive) To undo or reverse the wrecking of; (by extension) to repair; restore to good use; salvage
    • Remember, we were wrecked already when we started this cruise; it was supposed to unwreck us!1997, John Barth, The Tidewater Tales, page 411

Questions about unwrecking

What is unwrecking the present participle and gerund of?
Unwrecking is the present participle and gerund of unwreck.

Words near unwrecking in the dictionary

  1. unwreathing
  2. unwreaths
  3. unwreck
  4. unwreckable
  5. unwrecked
  6. unwrecking
  7. unwrecks
  8. unwrench
  9. unwrenched
  10. unwrenches
  11. unwrenching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwrecking (page history and authors); unwreck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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