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shipwreck
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shipwreck \Ship"wreck`\, 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.
A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage.
--Dryden.-
Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss.
Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck.
--1 Tim. 1. 19.It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck.
--J. Morley.
Shipwreck \Ship"wreck`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shipwrecked; p. pr. & vb. n. Shipwrecking.]
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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 break.
--Shak. 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.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from ship (n.) + wreck (n.). Earlier it meant "things cast up from a shipwreck" (c.1100). The earlier word for "shipwreck" in the modern sense was Middle English schipbreke, "'ship-break,'" from a North Sea Germanic word; compare West Frisian skipbrek, Middle Dutch schipbroke, German Schiffbruch, Old English scipgebroc. Old English scipbryce meant "right to claim goods from a wrecked ship."
1580s, "cause to wreck;" c.1600, "to suffer shipwreck," from shipwreck (n.). Related: Shipwrecked.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A ship that has sunk or run aground so that it is no longer seaworthy. 2 An event where a ship sinks or runs aground. 3 (context figurative English) destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss vb. To wreck a boat through a collision or mishap.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: wreck]
v. 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"
Wikipedia
A shipwreck is the remains of a ship that has wrecked, which are found either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water. Shipwrecking may be deliberate or accidental. UNESCO estimates that worldwide over 3 million shipwrecks, some thousands of years old, lie on seabeds.
Shipwreck is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero series of toys, cartoons and comics. He was originally created as a character for the Sunbow/ Marvel cartoon series in 1984, and later produced as an action figure, and finally introduced into the comic book in 1985.
Shipwreck is a book published in 1974 that contains text by John Fowles and photography by The Gibsons of Scilly.
Shipwreck is a 1931 short animated film starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The film is the 37th Oswald cartoon by Walter Lantz Productions, and the 89th overall.
A shipwreck is the term for a sunken or derelict ship.
Shipwreck may also refer to:
- Shipwrecking, an accident at sea when a ship sinks
- Shipwreck (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Shipwreck A.D., a hardcore band from Boston, Massachusetts
- Shipwreck, an alternate title for the 1978 movie The Sea Gypsies
- Shipwreck, a 1994 album by Chris Connelly
- "Shipwreck!", an episode of the anime series The Little Prince
- P-700 Granit, SS-N-19 "Shipwreck" anti-ship missile
- '' Shipwreck (film), a 1931 short film
Usage examples of "shipwreck".
In this manner did the crafty Fathom turn to account those ingratiating qualifications he inherited from nature, and maintain, with incredible assiduity and circumspection, an amorous correspondence with two domestic rivals, who watched the conduct of each other with the most indefatigable virulence of envious suspicion, until an accident happened, which had well-nigh overturned the bark of his policy, and induced him to alter the course, that he might not be shipwrecked on the rocks that began to multiply in the prosecution of his present voyage.
Shakespeare, when taken at the full, leads on to fortune, he resolved that the opportunity should not be lost, and applied himself with such assiduity to his practice, that, in all likelihood, he would have carried the palm from all his contemporaries, had he not split upon the same rock which had shipwrecked his hopes before.
On the whole, except for Barnet, the shipwrecked Islanders avoided the three captives.
This same Prince had granted an audience to a poor knight of Caux, one Robert le Mennot, to whom, when he was in danger of shipwreck near the coast of Syria, had been vouchsafed a vision.
He drew now upon that gift of his, represented himself as a mariner from Montoir, and told a harrowing tale of shipwreck.
There is a reflux in the tide of human things which bears the shipwrecked hopes of men into a secure haven after the storms are past.
Mage Guardians and eight of the Rising faithful from Renig Jail were sleeping in the upstairs rooms and the stables of the Shipwrecked Sailor.
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.