Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The destruction of a ship, as by storm or collision.
- noun The remains of a wrecked ship.
- noun A complete failure or ruin.
- transitive verb To cause a ship to be destroyed, as by storm or collision.
- transitive verb To cause (a passenger or sailor on a ship) to suffer shipwreck.
- transitive verb To ruin utterly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- noun Total failure; destruction; ruin.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb 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.
- noun 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.
- noun A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
- noun Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
boat that hassunk or runaground so that it is no longerseaworthy . - noun An event where a ship sinks or runs aground.
- verb To
wreck aboat through acollision ormishap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an accident that destroys a ship at sea
- verb cause to experience shipwreck
- noun an irretrievable loss
- verb destroy a ship
- verb suffer failure, as in some enterprise
- verb ruin utterly
- noun a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
Etymologies
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Examples
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But five minutes later the liner was contacted again after a passenger allegedly reported a problem and mentioned the word "shipwreck".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Victoria Ward 2012
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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".
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Michael Rundle 2012
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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".
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2012
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But five minutes later the liner was contacted again after a passenger allegedly reported a problem and mentioned the word "shipwreck".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Victoria Ward 2012
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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".
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Fortunately, this shipwreck is not in waters claimed by any other country, so we do not expect any interference in further exploration of the site.
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“Rather than staying frozen in time beneath the waves, this unique shipwreck is fading fast,” warns marine archaeologist Dr. Sean Kingsley, Director of Wreck Watch International.,
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But no dialogue between man and wife in extremis could be more pathetic than that in the scene where shipwreck is imminent.
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Considering that Pi's shipwreck is the first to focus on a boy and his tiger, how does Life of Pi compares to other maritime novels and films?
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a comparative idea of his own happiness, as when a shipwreck is viewed by a person safe on shore, as mentioned by Lucretius,
Canto III 1803
skipvia commented on the word shipwreck
One of my most enduring memories is of exploring the dunes along North Carolina's Outer Banks and finding partially buried wooden shipwrecks, which we were certain were pirate ships. See Free Association.
February 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word shipwreck
"Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours."
- al-Ghazzali, quoted in in Llewellyan Vaughan-Lee, 'Travelling the Path of Love'.
November 3, 2008