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  • verb Present participle of reck.

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Examples

  • Why didn't they say no to Bush when he was recking our economy.

    GOP Senators united in opposition to current financial reform bill 2010

  • Media has been doing all they can by looping the soundbites recking havoc on weak minds.

    McCain: 2008

  • And when he took counsel with her, she said, “Right is thy recking; marry her and I will be her handmaid; for I am her debtor for kindness and favour and good offices, and obligations manifold, especially as we are here in her place and as the King her father hath whelmed us with benefits.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As for the marriage-settlement that is for thy recking.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Sasan heard his wife name her, he said, “Right is this recking”; and, sending for the old woman, told her what had passed and bade her cast about to kill Kanmaken, promising her all good.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Quoth Maymunah, “Right is this recking,” and quoth Dahnash, “I consent to this.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hippolytus hath dared by brutal force to violate my honour, recking naught of Zeus, whose awful eye is over all.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Quoth al-Maamun, ‘Right is thy recking,’ and bade make ready a barge, called ‘the Flyer,’ wherein he embarked with Abu Isa and a party of his chief officers.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Hippolytus hath dared by brutal force to violate my honour, recking naught of Zeus, whose awful eye is over all.

    Hippolytus 2008

  • So she rose forthright and going to a chest, arrayed herself in what was richest and dearest to her of her trinkets of gold and jewels of price, and she fared forth, her handmaids recking naught.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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