Shipwreck
['ʃɪprek] or ['ʃɪprɛk]
Definition
(noun.) a wrecked ship (or a part of one).
(noun.) an accident that destroys a ship at sea.
(noun.) an irretrievable loss; 'that was the shipwreck of their romance'.
(verb.) destroy a ship; 'The vessel was shipwrecked'.
(verb.) cause to experience shipwreck; 'They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea'.
(verb.) suffer failure, as in some enterprise.
(verb.) ruin utterly; 'You have shipwrecked my career'.
Typist: Willie--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
(n.) Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
(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.
(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.
Checker: Prudence
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Wreck, ruin, perdition, destruction, miscarriage, overthrow, subversion, demolition.
v. a. Wreck, strand, flounder, cast away.
Edited by Horace
Examples
- In case of shipwreck it is often employed to carry a line from the shore to a stranded vessel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The story he told was merely one of shipwreck in which all but a few had perished, the balance, except himself, dying after they reached the island. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You mean that they would shipwreck? Plato. The Republic.
- Have you any other letters to write—I mean about the shipwreck? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Well, my dear, there has been a terrible shipwreck over in those East Indian seas. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then I stretched myself on the bed, not to be disdained by the victim of shipwreck. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The labours of these three men have illuminated the wildest waters of the sea and preserved a thousand fleets of commerce and of war from awful shipwreck. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We must not shipwreck Ada upon it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- By my faith, I could pardon the unhappy Vortigern, had he half the cause that we now witness, for making shipwreck of his honour and his kingdom. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Prendergast threw us over a chart, told us that we were shipwrecked mariners whose ship had foundered in Lat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- One in 1849 came to demand the liberation of eighteen shipwrecked American sailors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Then he got shipwrecked just as he was coming from Jerusalem to take a great chair at Padua. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Woodcourt shipwrecked! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Trinity House installed a station at the East Goodwin Lighthouse, which communicated with shore and proved of the greatest value in preventing shipwrecks. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
Editor: Nat