Dictionary definition · shipwreck
noun
- a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
- an irretrievable loss"that was the shipwreck of their romance"
- an accident that destroys a ship at sea
verb
- ruin utterly"You have shipwrecked my career"
- suffer failure, as in some enterprise
- cause to experience shipwreck"They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
- destroy a ship"The vessel was shipwrecked"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).