Thesaurus: shipwreck

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1. n. 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.
2. n. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
3. n. Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. 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; as, to shipwreck a business.
6. n. a wrecked ship (or a part of one)
7. n. an irretrievable loss
8. n. an accident that destroys a ship at sea
9. v. ruin utterly
10. v. suffer failure, as in some enterprise
11. v. cause to experience shipwreck
12. v. destroy a ship