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Shipwreck

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The destruction of a ship, as by storm or collision.

n. The remains of a wrecked ship.

n. A complete failure or ruin.

v. Nautical To cause a ship to be destroyed, as by storm or collision.

v. Nautical To cause (a passenger or sailor on a ship) to suffer shipwreck.

v. To ruin utterly.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A boat that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy.

n. An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.

v. To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves.

n. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.

n. Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.

v. To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.

v. To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The destruction or loss of a vessel by foundering at sea, by striking on a rock or shoal, or the like; the wreck of a ship.

n. Total failure; destruction; ruin.

n. Shattered remains, as of a vessel which has been wrecked; wreck; wreckage.

To wreck; subject to the perils and distress of shipwreck.

To wreck; ruin; destroy.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an accident that destroys a ship at sea

v. cause to experience shipwreck

n. an irretrievable loss

v. destroy a ship

v. suffer failure, as in some enterprise

v. ruin utterly

n. a wrecked ship (or a part of one)

Word Usage

"But five minutes later the operations room at Livorno port was said to have contacted the liner again after a passenger had allegedly reported a problem and mentioned the word "shipwreck"."

Verb Form

shipwrecked shipwrecking shipwrecks

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

subject ruination ruin destroy miscarry

Cross Reference

to make shipwreck of castaway

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

wreckage ruin wreck destroy

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

famine pestilence privation catastrophe wreck