noun
- A wrecked ship (or a part of one. )
- An irretrievable loss.
- usage: "that was the shipwreck of their romance"
- An accident that destroys a ship at sea.
- synonyms: wreck
verb
- Ruin utterly.
- usage: "You have shipwrecked my career"
- Suffer failure, as in some enterprise.
- Cause to experience shipwreck.
- usage: "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"
- Destroy a ship.
- usage: "The vessel was shipwrecked"
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