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Meaning & Definition of Shipwreck in English

English

Shipwreck

/ʃɪprɛk/

noun

1. A wrecked ship (or a part of one)

synonym:
  • shipwreck

2. An irretrievable loss

  • "That was the shipwreck of their romance"
synonym:
  • shipwreck

3. An accident that destroys a ship at sea

synonym:
  • shipwreck,
  • wreck

verb

1. Ruin utterly

  • "You have shipwrecked my career"
synonym:
  • shipwreck

2. Suffer failure, as in some enterprise

synonym:
  • shipwreck

3. Cause to experience shipwreck

  • "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
synonym:
  • shipwreck

4. Destroy a ship

  • "The vessel was shipwrecked"
synonym:
  • shipwreck

Examples of using

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances.