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shipwrecked

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shipwrecked is a 1926 silent feature film adventure romance directed by Joseph Henabery and starring Seena Owen . It is based on a play, Shipwrecked , by Langdon McCormick and was released through Producers Distributing Corporation . It is preserved at ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipwreck \Ship"wreck`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shipwrecked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shipwrecking .] 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. Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island" [syn: castaway ] aground as a consequence of a shipwreck

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
strand as a result of a shipwreck. v (en-past of: shipwreck )

Usage examples of shipwrecked.

What she has done for Franklin and so many others, she will do to-day for these poor shipwrecked fellows of the BRITANNIA.

DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination.

American continent to where it dips into the Atlantic, without deviating from it half a degree, and possibly in some part of its course we shall fall in with the shipwrecked party.

The Scotchman was glad of the chance of gleaning some information about his shipwrecked countryman, while the Patagonian hardly cared to encounter the nomadic Indians of the prairie, knowing their bandit propensities.

But Harry Grant and his two sailors, those poor shipwrecked fellows, would not be with them.

It was evident that the degrees given related to the place where the BRITANNIA was actually shipwrecked and not the place of captivity, and that the bottle therefore had been thrown into the sea on the western coast of the continent.

Scotchman like yourself, my Lord, and one of the shipwrecked crew of the BRITANNIA.

All trace of Captain Grant and his shipwrecked men seemed to be irrevocably lost.

The shipwrecked party were in an agonizing situation on their narrow raft, and overtaken by the shades of night.

We are shipwrecked travelers, but it may be important to state that we have taken no part in the war.

If Glenarvan spoke at all of renewing the search, he shook his head like a man who has given up all hope, and whose convictions concerning the fate of the shipwrecked men appeared settled.

When the survivors of the shipwrecked BRITANNIA took refuge there, the hand of man began to organize the efforts of nature.

Paganel had persisted in making it the root of the verb ABORDER, and it turned out to be a proper name, the French name of the Isle Tabor, the isle which had been a refuge for the shipwrecked sailors of the BRITANNIA.

Their search had not been fruitless, for they were bringing back the survivors of the shipwrecked BRITANNIA.

Greek hospitality to the distressed voyagers shipwrecked on his shores.