Allow
Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.
Wreck
Wreck verb - To cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Being able to stack all these while keeping their MP up can allow a player to wreck their QWER keys with gutso.
Source: Video Game / League of Legends -
Wreck-It Ralph may have been subjected to this trope to allow for natural sounding Improv from the leads.
Source: Voices in One Room -
Rather than allow a decorated hero to be dragged before the People's Court and wreck national morale, Hitler instead dispatched General Wilhelm Burgdorf with a vial of cyanide and the threat that, if Rommel did not commit suicide, his family would be punished.
Source: Useful Notes / Erwin Rommel
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Wreck and Allow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/wreck
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