shipwreck
Pronunciation
/ˈʃɪpɹɛk/

Definition & Meaning of "shipwreck"in English

Shipwreck
01

a ship that is destroyed or sunk at sea

Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
shipwrecks
02

an accident that destroys a ship at sea

03

an irretrievable loss

to shipwreck
01

destroy a ship

Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
shipwreck
3rd person singular
shipwrecks
Present participle
shipwrecking
Past simple
shipwrecked
Past participle
shipwrecked
02

cause to experience shipwreck

03

ruin utterly

04

suffer failure, as in some enterprise

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