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shipwreck

noun

1 shipwreck

A wrecked ship (or a part of one).

Polish: wrak

2 shipwreck

An irretrievable loss.

Dutch: schipbreuk

3 shipwreck

An accident that destroys a ship at sea.

synonym: wreck.

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Dutch: schipbreuk

verb

1 shipwreck

Ruin utterly.

Roget 731: succeed; be successful etc. adj.; gain one's end, gain one's ends; crown with success.    gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a point, win an object; get there [U.S.]; ... show more

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

2 shipwreck

Suffer failure, as in some enterprise.

3 shipwreck

Cause to experience shipwreck.

4 shipwreck

Destroy a ship.


Moby thesaurus: accident, beach, blow, break up, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, bring to ruin, calamity, capsize, cast away, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, collapse, collision, condemn, confound ... show more.

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