shipwreck

1. (verb) destroy a ship: "The vessel was shipwrecked"
Related Words: destroy, ruin

2. (verb) cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
Related Words: subject

3. (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise
Related Words: fail, go wrong, miscarry

4. (verb) ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career"
Related Words: ruin

5. (noun) a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
Related Words: ship

6. (noun) an accident that destroys a ship at sea
Synonyms: wreck
Related Words: accident, capsizing, overturning

7. (noun) an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance"
Related Words: ruin, ruination



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