wreckers
Tear structures down
Wreckers are people who demolish or dismantle things—buildings, cars, ships.
A wrecking crew tears down structures; a wrecker's yard salvages auto parts.
Historically, wreckers were coastal scavengers who plundered shipwrecks, sometimes luring vessels onto rocks with false lights.
A wrecker is also a tow truck that hauls away disabled vehicles.
Salvage lot for vehicles
- junkyardSalvage storage site
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- dismantlersThose who take apart
- strippersPerformers who disrobe
recyclers · repurposers · scavengers · reclaimers · roadside · towing · insurance · totaled
Willful property destroyers
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- underminingWeakening by covert means
- disruptorsThose who destabilize systems
agitators · arsonists · troublemakers · terrorists · anarchists · instigators · subversives · hooligans
scrapyard
Salvage lot for vehicles
- junkyardSalvage storage site
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- dismantlersThose who take apart
strippers · recyclers · repurposers · scavengers · reclaimers · roadside · towing · insurance · totaled · stripped
vandals
Willful property destroyers
- sabotageDeliberate disruption of operations
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- underminingWeakening by covert means
disruptors · agitators · arsonists · troublemakers · terrorists · anarchists · instigators · subversives · hooligans · provocateurs
coastline
Land-water boundary
lanterns · plunder · cargo · survivors · Cornwall · looting · beachcombers · flotsam · jetsam · smugglers
bulldozer
Bladed vehicle pushing earth
- sledgehammerMassive long-handled mallet
- jackhammerPower tool for breaking concrete
- razingComplete structural demolition
teardown · dismantle · rubble · demolish · implosion · excavator · crane · dynamite · blasting · flatten
- CornwallPenzance, St Ives, Falmouth, Truro, Cornish pasty
- demolition workersdemolisher, blaster, dynamiters, explosives expert, dismantlers
- Florida HistorySt. Augustine, Ponce de Leon, Everglades, Spanish exploration, Seminole
- piracysoftware piracy, pirates, torrents, book piracy, buccaneers
- raidersraiders, marauders, pillagers, plunderers, looters
- Soviet RepressionStalin, NKVD, gulag, gulags, Great Purge
wreckersbuilders
Those who construct things
constructors · creators · makers · erectors · construction workers
wreckerspreservers
Things that maintain condition
conservators · restorers · preservationists · protectors · maintainers
wreckersrescuers
Those who save endangered people
salvagers · lifesavers · salvors · coastguard · first responders
- home wreckerOne causing marital dissolution
- wrecked carsDamaged automobiles, undriveable
- train wreckedLocomotive left the rails
- auto wreckerVehicle salvage operation
- completely wrecked